Dallas police shooting: What we know about the man police say "executed" an officer

ATTACK. THANKS FOR JOINING US. I'M BLAKE HANSON. WE WANT TO UPDATE OUR TOP STORY. NOW. WE'RE LEARNING MORE ABOUT THE SUSPECT IN LAST NIGHT'S SHOOTING THAT KILLED ONE DALLAS POLICE OFFICER AND WOUNDED TWO OTHERS. THE FALLEN OFFICER, DARREN BERKS, WAS SHOT IN HIS PATROL CAR LAST NIGHT WHILE PARKED OUTSIDE OF A COMMUNITY CENTER IN OAK CLIFF. THEY SAY THE SUSPECT, COREY COB, WAS LOOKING TO MURDER AN OFFICER AND ALLUDED TO PLANS ON SOCIAL MEDIA. THE POLICE CHIEF CALLED THE KILLING AN EXECUTION. RESPONDING OFFICERS EXCHANGED GUNFIRE WITH THE SHOOTER AND TWO OF THE OFFICERS WERE WOUNDED. ONE OF THEM IS OUT OF THE HOSPITAL, THE OTHER STILL RECOVERING IN A HOSPITAL. FOX FOUR'S SEAN RAB FOLLOWING THOSE DEVELOPMENTS, HE JOINS US FROM THE NEWSROOM WITH THE VERY LATEST. SEAN. YEAH. AND SOME OF WHAT THE CHIEF WAS TALKING ABOUT AS IT RELATES TO COREY COBB. WE LEARNED THAT TODAY THROUGH HIS SOCIAL MEDIA. NEED TO UPDATE YOU ABOUT THIS MAN WHO SHOT THREE OFFICERS, KILLING 46 YEAR OLD DARREN BERKS. HE AGAIN IS IDENTIFIED AS COREY COBB, A 30 YEAR OLD MAN. THIS BOOKING PHOTO IS FROM 2017. ARREST FOR TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS, FAILURE TO ID, GIVING A FALSE NAME. WE COULD FIND NO RECORD OF VIOLENT ACTS BEFORE NOW. COBB, ACCORDING TO HIS SOCIAL MEDIA, IDENTIFIES AS A MOORISH AMERICAN NATIONAL. THAT'S A POPULATION OF THE PEOPLE THAT CONSIDERS THEMSELVES TO BE SOVEREIGN AND IMMUNE FROM U.S. LAWS. NOW, COBB POSTED VIDEOS AND THE CHIEF TALKED ABOUT THIS OF HIS APPROACHING UNDERCOVER OFFICERS TALKING TO THEM, QUESTIONING THEM AT TIMES ABOUT WHAT THEY'RE DOING, AND WHY THEY'RE IN CERTAIN PLACES. USING HIS CELL PHONE, HE APPROACHED DARREN BERKS, WHO WAS SITTING IN HIS SQUAD CAR IN THE 900 BLOCK OF EAST LEDBETTER EAST OAK CLIFF THURSDAY NIGHT, A LITTLE AFTER 10 P.M, CHIEF GARCIA AGAIN SAYS IT WAS NOT AN AMBUSH, BUT THAT THE OFFICERS WERE TARGETED. OFFICER BERKS WAS EXECUTED. OUR PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION HAS DETERMINED THAT ON THURSDAY, AUGUST 29TH, AT 10:02 P.M, THE SUSPECT, IDENTIFIED AS 30 YEAR OLD COREY COBB, A BLACK MALE, ARRIVED IN THE 900 BLOCK OF EAST LEDBETTER DRIVE AND PARKED HIS WHITE BUICK AT 1004. OFFICER BURKS ARRIVED AT THE LOCATION AND PARKED NEAR THE FRONT ENTRANCE OF THE BUILDING. BETWEEN CALL ASSIGNMENTS, COBB BAY APPROACHED OFFICER BURKS AND TALKED WITH HIM BRIEFLY THROUGH THE DRIVER'S SIDE WINDOW AS HE RECORDED THE ENCOUNTER WITH THE CELL PHONE. THE SUSPECT THEN PULLED OUT A HANDGUN AND EXECUTED OFFICER BURKS AS HE SAT IN HIS VEHICLE. THE CHIEF SPOKE WITH BOTH OF THE WOUNDED OFFICERS TODAY, ALONG WITH THE MOTHER OF DARREN BURKS, AND VISITED WITH OFFICERS AT THE SOUTH CENTRAL SUBSTATION, WHERE DARREN BURKS WORKED. CLEARLY, THE CHIEF WITH THE RANGE OF UNDERSTANDABLE EMOTIONS AFTER THE EVENTS OF LAST NIGHT, AND HE TALKED ABOUT HOW HIS OFFICERS RESPONDED. THIS MAN, COREY COBB, TOOK A SHOTGUN AND OPENED FIRE ON THOSE OFFICERS, STRIKING A FEMALE OFFICER, OFFICER DAVID, IN THE FACE AND OFFICER FARMER IN THE LEG. THE CHIEF SAID IT WAS CLEAR WE ALMOST LOST THREE OFFICERS LAST NIGHT AND HE WAS THANKFUL THAT THOSE TWO OFFICERS SURVIVED. BUT CLEARLY THE DEPARTMENT, THE CHIEF, THE CITY HURTING

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