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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Robin Buller in Covelo, California

‘They took everything’: an Indigenous town rocked by the killings of young people

A sign in Round Valley asking for help finding 23-year-old Khadijah Britton.
A sign in Round Valley asking for help finding 23-year-old Khadijah Britton. Photograph: Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images

Marline Fulwider is no stranger to grief. As a young woman, she lost her 23-year-old brother; years later, her 25-year-old son-in-law, whom she had previously taken in as a foster child, was killed.

But nothing could have prepared Fulwider for the morning of 16 April, when another teen she had taken in was found beaten to death. Ruby Sky Montelongo was just 16 years old.

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