Reporter Peels Back the Layers of Infamous Student Shooting
Solid investigative work by Jacy Marmaduke.
A fellow journalist at newspaper the Coloradoan, Jason Pohl, tweeted: ‘You don’t see #truecrime storytelling like this often at local papers. Profound work by Jacy Marmaduke.’ We agree.
Marmaduke’s front-page story revisits the Oct. 14, 1980 shooting in Fort Collins of Faisal Zagallai, a then-35-year-old student of Libyan descent doing graduate work at Colorado State University. She spent months working on the piece, digging up new details about the arrest and trial of Eugene Tafoya, a decorated ex-Green Beret:
Tafoya never paused before answering [questions in court]; never minced words; never “danced” with the prosecutor, as [lawyer Scott] Robinson calls it.
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