Two men have been charged with the murder of the journalist Lyra McKee, who was shot and killed in 2019 during riots in the city of Derry in Northern Ireland.

The killing of the 29-year-old journalist was treated as a terrorist episode, and the authorities attributed it to militants opposed to British rule.

Detectives from Police Service Northern Ireland said late Thursday that two men — ages 21 and 33 — had been charged in her killing. They were also charged with possession of a firearm and ammunition with intent to endanger life, rioting, possession of petrol bombs, throwing petrol bombs and arson. The 33-year-old was also charged with robbery.

A third man, who is 20, has been charged with rioting, possession of petrol bombs and throwing petrol bombs. None of the suspects have been publicly identified. They are expected in court on Friday morning.

A 19-year-old who was taken into custody with the three others this week was released pending a review by the Public Prosecution Service, the police said.

Ms. McKee was killed after some of the worst rioting to rock Northern Ireland in years.

Most of the violence took place in Creggan, a heavily Roman Catholic area of Derry, which is referred to as Londonderry by unionists who want the region to remain part of the United Kingdom.

Ms. McKee spoke of her generation as the Ceasefire Babies, too young to remember the worst of the sectarian violence.

“I was 4,” she wrote in an article before her death. “We were the Good Friday Agreement generation, destined not to witness the horrors of war but to reap the spoils of peace. The spoils never seemed to reach us.”

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