You must be severely chastised for your microaggression here.The creature in question didn't use gender pronouns so it must be said that "it died".
Your penance will be...
The journalist used the pronoun "they/their" to refer to one man, but I noticed the decedent's boyfriend used the pronoun "he".
At the end of the article: "Their partner has been left with a sense of guilt over what took place. "In my grief, Im hitting myself like it was like watching my lover shoot heroin and not saying anything," Shils told The Hollywood Reporter. "Never in my wildest dreams did I think he was going to end up dead."