stories and occasionally helps tighten up a lede, but mostly leaves her in command so that it remains "a kid's paper". On April 2, 2016, Lysiak was at the police station asking the police about the conclusion of a vandalism case she was following, when she overheard the police chief explain he was leaving the station because something important had occurred. Lysiak quickly discovered that the call was for a murder only a few blocks away from her home: a woman had died violently, and the police suspected her husband had murdered her with a hammer. Lysiak went to the crime scene and then hurried home to give her father a report, which he edited and posted on the website with the headline "EXCLUSIVE: MURDER ON NINTH STREET". She returned to the murder scene and created a short video. Her story included quotes from neighbors and police. She scooped other news sources by several hours. Lysiak was mentioned in the January 2017 issue of National Geographic article "I Am Nine Years Old". In his book LikeWar, Peter Singer uses Lysiak as one of two examples to illustrate the "shift" in journalism "eliminating gatekeepers" in favor of everyone telling their story. Defense of crime reporting Immediately after Lysiak reported on the local murder, her newspaper's Facebook page received negative comments about a 9-year-old covering such a scene. Commenters challenged her parents' choices to allow a child to "pretend to be a reporter"; some wrote that she should be playing with a tea set or with dolls. Lysiak responded that she normally does not read the comments, but felt that she should respond to the negativity from her readers. She read out several of the comments on video to her sister, and then they posted the video on their website and on YouTube. Threatened with arrest In February 2019, Lysiak was in Patagonia, Arizona, researching stories including residents' opinions on the Border Patrol and the proposed Border Wall, when she was stopped by the town marshal, Joseph A. Patterson, who asked "You taping me?" and then falsely claimed "if you put my face on the Internet, it's against the law in Arizona." He also told Lysiak, “I don’t want to hear any of that freedom of press stuff.” She posted the video on YouTube and on her newspaper's website, noting that this is permitted under the First Amendment. The town disciplined the