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\n S<\/span>hootings are so common in the U.S. that victims are often reduced to 10-point type in news stories: A name and age, maybe alongside a loved ones\u2019 baleful quote set snug against a margin.

Peter Sagal<\/a> made sure that didn\u2019t happen to Isabella Thallas.

Perhaps best-known as the host of NPR\u2019s weekly comedy news-quiz program, \u201cWait, Wait \u2026 Don\u2019t Tell Me,\u201d<\/a> Sagal also, according to his NPR bio<\/a>, has been and may someday be again \u201ca husband, father, playwright, screenwriter, author, journalist, columnist, marathoner,\u00a0Jeopardy\u00a0<\/em>contestant, dramaturg, podcast host, documentary host, foreign correspondent, wedding officiant, and magician’s assistant. As of last month, he can add Atlantic writer<\/a> to his resume.

The core of \u201cKilled for Walking a Dog\u201d<\/strong><\/a> is in in the blunt and resigned subhed: \u201cThe mundanity and insanity of gun death in America.\u201d Part profile, part event narrative, part outraged essay, it follows the death of Thallas, a young woman killed in flurried gunfire as she and her boyfriend walked the boyfriend\u2019s dog, Rocco, on a Denver street in 2020. Sagal assumed such a senseless death would merit national coverage, then grew dispirited when it didn\u2019t.

So he tracked the story in Denver media for two years and finally reached out to Thallas\u2019 family, who called her Bella, for a fuller story of her life and death.

The resulting story explores Thallas\u2019 life<\/a> and grieves her death; explores the guilt and grief of her boyfriend, wounded when bullets \u201cliquefied\u201d bones in his leg; and reflects a life tragically lost in a manner that can sometimes be shunted aside by shootings with gaudier motivations or higher death tolls. As he writes in the story:
There was something about this killing, on the side of a Denver street on a sunny June morning in 2020, that captured my attention. I couldn\u2019t stop thinking about what happened to Bella Thallas. maybe it was her age\u2014about that of my daughters\u2014or maybe it was the specific circumstances of her murder, which were both mundane and completely insane.<\/blockquote>
The story earned a spot in The Atlantic\u2019s One Story to Read Today<\/a> feature recommended by the magazine\u2019s editors. Praise also came in from other journalists: Author and MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes<\/a> calling it \u201cgutting;\u201d lauded narrative writer Marin Cogin<\/a>, now a senior editor with Vox, called it \u201cbeautiful and quietly devastating.\u201d

Beyond its power as a compelling portrait and societal lament, \u201cKilled for Walking a Dog\u201d is is a model other journalists can study for how to tell stories that are as ignored and urgent as the tale Sagal unspooled.

Gather details<\/strong><\/h3>
Sagal builds a portrait of Bella Thallas through a prosaic but powerful tool that can\u2019t be praised enough: small details that add up. Painstaking reporting allows him to build an achingly specific portrait, and to prevent a victim from being reduced to no more than a victim or stereotype.

Readers learn not just that Thallas was guileless, but guileless enough to pay a random person to park a car at a concert; not just thoughtful, but thoughtful enough to send her mother a photo of her eating the beautiful birthday cake her mother had bought her. The cake had been so beautiful, Sagal notes, nobody had dared touch it during Bella\u2019s 21st birthday. He even includes the filling: guava.

Heed your emotions<\/strong><\/h3>
The clich\u00e9 of journalists as dispassionate robots is common, even among other journalists. It deserves a home in the trash can, along with tropes about journalists wearing snap-brim fedoras and swigging hooch at their desks.

It\u2019s important for journalists to report facts, even if they disprove initial impressions or favored narratives; to be fair, even to people or ideas they\u2019re skeptical of; and to always, always<\/em> be truthful.

Often it would be too much to let emotions bleed into a story. But whether they\u2019re guiding you to a story or coming through in the words on the page, they have a place informing your work. Something you find ironic also may tickle readers; something you find outrageous may anger them.

You can feel Sagal\u2019s emotions throughout his story. At first they\u2019re quiet as a whisper, then they\u2019re loud as a shout.

Bring back details for maximum power<\/strong><\/h3>
Journalists should always be mindful of the power of introducing a detail, then bringing it back when it\u2019s earned a more powerful context.

Fairly early in his portrait of Thallus, Sagal briefly mentions a \u201cbeautiful Dolce & Gabbana dress\u201d the young woman\u2019s mother had bought for her. In that reference, the detail seems like a symbol of the waxing and waning tension between a traditionalist mother and a daughter straining for independence.

If its initial mention is a symbol, the second is an uppercut.

The story\u2019s final line resurrects the dress as Sagal weds his political essay of our indifference to gun violence with his personal portrait of an innocent woman felled by it:
And because we can\u2019t bear to confront how suicidal it is to privilege over all else the rights of those damaged young men to use killing machines, we must bury the knowledge of this insanity along with Bella, who was interred in Block 117, Lot 108 of Denver\u2019s Fairmount Cemetery, forever wearing the Dolce & Gabbana dress her mother had been saving for a special occasion.<\/blockquote>
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Trevor Pyle<\/strong> was a newspaper reporter in the Pacific Northwest for several years, and is a communications officer for a regional nonprofit.<\/em>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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