Tony Mosley went door-to-door on the Central District block where DeSzaun Smallwood was killed in 2014, and found she was doing something Seattle Police hadnt.

Tonya Mosley went door-to-door on the Central District block where DeSzaun Smallwood was killed in 2014, and found she was doing something Seattle Police hadn’t. Malcolm Smith

The Washington State Association for Justice this week honored Tonya Mosley‘s “excellence in journalism” for a piece she wrote last may for The Stranger. Her story, “When the ‘No Snitch Code’ Becomes an Excuse,” featured Mosley going door to door in her neighborhood, the Central District, to see whether a fatal shooting was being investigated properly by Seattle police detectives.

Read the piece here—and congratulations, Tonya!

Eli Sanders was The Stranger's associate editor. His book, "While the City Slept," was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He once did this and once won...