Renata Brito, video journalist, and Silvia Izquierdo, Brazil photo editor, Rio de Janeiro, for tracking down and convincing devastated families to tell the stories of losing their children to stray bullets in Rio, just a year after Brazil hosted the Olympic Games. http://bit.ly/2gcfjaT
Kids being killed in crossfire in Rio de Janeiro amid surge in violence one year after Olympics
Thayana Caparica poses with a photo of her 7-year-old daughter Fernanda, at the Mare complex of slums, in Rio de Janeiro, Sept. 6, 2017. Classes at Fernanda's school were canceled on the morning of Feb. 15, due to gunfire between gangs. Caparica took her daughter home, but by the afternoon Fernanda wanted to play outside. She kept insisting. Finally Caparica let her go to a friend's house. Later that day she learned that her daughter had been shot in the face.
AP Photo / Silvia Izquierdo