Rose Cobb
Name: Rose Cobb
Age: 47
Gender: Female
Race: African-American/Black
Date: 12/26/2007
Location: 12907 E Jefferson Ave.
Detroit, Michigan, 48215
County: Wayne
Agency: Detroit Police Department
Cause of Death: Gunshot
Intended Use of Force: Deadly force
Media summary: Rose Cobb was shot to death outside an east side CVS as she sat in her car waiting for her husband, DPD Sgt. David Cobb, to come out of the store. In April 2008, Vincent Smothers, a self-admitted hit man, confessed to the killing, saying David Cobb hired him to kill his wife, and that Cobb's girlfriend's son, Marzell Shawn Black, was also involved. Police arrested David Cobb and Black; Black was charged, but police declined to charge David Cobb at that time. On September 26, 2008, David Cobb was found hanging from a tree at Dodge Park in Sterling Heights. In October 2008, police sources said plea negotiations were underway with two people already charged in Rose Cobb's death that would have led to murder charges against David Cobb, and that Cobb knew this when he took his own life.
Unique ID: 21177
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