On Monday, as anti-government protests swept across parts of Kenya, 12-year-old Bridgit Njoki sat watching television in her family's modest home.
She had no idea that the deadly clashes between these protesters and Kenya's armed police would find their way into her living room.
A single bullet pierced the roof, puncturing the ceiling and striking Njoki in the head, her mother, Lucy Ngugi, tells the BBC.
Within hours, she was pronounced dead in hospital. "She was my everything," Ms Ngugi says, while sobbing in her home just outside the capital, Nairobi. "She was all I had." "Let me be the last mother to weep because of the death of a child.
