Nearly a year after the death of Isabella Thallas in Denver, the city is grappling with how the rifle used to kill Thallas was a personal firearm of a Denver police officer who was a longtime friend of the shooting suspect.
A woman was fatally shot while walking a dog. The gun used was a police officer’s AK-47. Timothy Bella A mural of Isabella Thallas by artist Thomas “Detour” Evans in Denver. Thallas, 21, was killed last year by an alleged gunman who used an AK-47 owned by a police officer. As Darian Simon was walking his dog with his girlfriend last June, he heard a critical voice yelling at them to not let the dog go to the bathroom in the alley of a Denver apartment building. The man in the ground-level apartment asked the couple if they were going to train the dog or just command the pet to “go poop,” according to a probable cause statement. Simon ignored the man until he saw him point what Simon believed to be a pellet gun at him and his girlfriend, Isabella Thallas.
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A former Denver police officer whose gun was used in the fatal shooting of a young woman this summer has resigned.
Sgt. Daniel Politica resigned from the Denver Police Department (DPD) effective March 13, according to a spokesperson for the department.
9Wants to Know confirmed earlier this year that an AK-47-style rifle belonging to Politica somehow ended up in the hands of the suspect accused of shooting and killing Isabella Thallas while she was walking with her boyfriend and his dog on June 10.
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