A journalist who had graduated from Southern Methodist University in Dallas has been killed in Ukraine. Brent Renaud, 50, was a documentary filmmaker.
Renaud was shot this weekend at a checkpoint in Irpin, a city about ten miles east of Kyiv.
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"We crossed the checkpoint, and they started shooting at us," says Juan Arredondo, a cameraman who was working with Renaud.
Arredondo says he saw Renaud get shot by Russian forces, and they were then split up. Arredondo was injured in the shooting and was speaking from a hospital in Kyiv.
"The occupants kill even journalists of the international media who try to show the truth about the inaction of Russian troops in Ukraine," Kyiv Regional Police Chief Andriy Nebitov wrote in a post on Facebook.
Renaud was born in Little Rock, Arkansas and graduated from SMU in 1994. He had worked with at-risk children in Dallas while a student.
Renaud had previously covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Egyptian revolution in 2011 and civil war in Libya. He also traveled to Haiti after the earthquake there in 2010.
"He wanted to tell the stories of the people who were affected by these crises," says Mae Dols de Jong, a documentary filmmaker who knew Renaud.
According to their website, Brent Renaud and his brother, Craig, had also covered cartel violence in Mexico and the refugee crisis in Central America. They won a Peabody Award in 2014 for a documentary on a school for students in Chicago with emotional disorders who had been expelled from other schools.
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