Fallen: The story behind the story

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Fallen project was the KXAN investigative team’s reaction to a single shooter killing five police officers in Dallas last summer and a wave of law enforcement officers gunned down across Texas and the country.
We didn’t set out to tell a story about racism, firearms or police shooting other people. Those were already out there. Actually, our story started with two questions on the other side of those conversations: what do these killers have in common, and c