Last August, a college student named Alan Pean was Tasered and shot in the chest by two security guards shortly after seeking treatment for a psychotic episode at a Houston hospital. Pean is the subject of a major New York Times story by Elisabeth Rosenthal that was published Friday morning, which serves as a look at the ramifications of hospital security personnel increasingly being allowed to carry deadly weapons the job.
The Times isn’t just telling Pean’s story through the classic mix of print and images. The paper has also teamed up with This American Life, the legendary public radio team led by Ira Glass, to (quite literally) give voice to Pean’s story.
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