Rory Peck

Rory Peck (13 December 1956 – 3 October 1993) was a Northern-Irish freelance war cameraman who was killed while covering the events of the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis.

[2] Rory was shot and killed outside the Ostankino TV Centre in Moscow by Boris Yeltsin's loyalists (the Internal Troops' special forces unit Vityaz[3]) while covering the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993.

His maternal grandmother was from a French-speaking family in New Orleans of French and Spanish descent.

After school his first interest was ocean engineering; he started at the Florida Institute of Technology, then transferred to Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh – leaving there for travel, then military training, and eventually journalism.

[1][6] The Rory Peck Award is given to camera operators who have risked their lives to report on newsworthy events.