Memorial cruise for Isabella Thallas draws dozens of custom, classic cars

DENVER (KDVR) — A memorial occasion for Isabella Thallas was held in Denver on Saturday.  

The 21-year-old was shot and killed whereas strolling her canine in her downtown Denver neighborhood again in June of 2020. 

There have been a couple of hundred automobiles, even some bikes becoming a member of in, on what organizers known as a memorial cruise. 

The grueling a part of this story is the weapon that took her life. It was a stolen gun from a Denver police officer’s residence, and the gun was by no means even reported lacking. 

The journey was to honor a younger lady’s life that was taken too quickly.    

“It may very well be one in one million, and it may very well be anyone’s one,” Josh Thallas, Isabella’s dad stated.  

About 100 loud and colourful automobiles gathered collectively exhibiting that Isabella’s reminiscence won’t ever fade.  

“It’s every thing. And I say that I imply, simply to indicate that there are such a lot of folks on this world. There’s far more good than there’s dangerous,” Thallas stated. “That is proof proper right here of precisely what that’s. A few of them are actually nice pals of mine, and a few I’ve by no means met earlier than.”

In the course of the occasion, Thallas had a smile on his face saying that is what his daughter Isabella would need.

“She simply loves bringing folks collectively, seeing a great time,” Thallas stated. 

Even connecting with different fathers who misplaced their daughters. 

“Simply once you suppose you’ve an enormous rock you’re pushing up a hill, there are different human beings on the earth which have big rocks as properly,” Thallas stated. “It’s a tough place to be, that’s a gap and a void that by no means will get crammed or fastened. It’s a membership that you simply by no means wish to be part of.”   

Organizers additionally collected donations and offered t-shirts to take care of her backyard and begin a scholarship fund.    

Michael Shut was charged within the capturing with two counts of homicide within the first diploma amongst different prices and has pleaded not responsible by motive of madness.