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Homicides don't get much more tragic and senseless than the June 10, 2020, slaying of 21-year-old Isabella "Bella" Thallas. Michael Close allegedly used an AK-47 to kill Thallas and seriously wound Darian Simon near West 30th Avenue and Fox Street after "the suspect got into a verbal altercation with the victims related to the victims telling [their] dog to poop," according to a Denver Police Department report. Although the Denver district attorney has charged Close with first-degree murder in the case, there's another complication. The AK-47 was owned by then-Denver Police officer Dan Poli...

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.

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 t...