Rose Cobb

How they died

Deadly force

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.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Rose Cobb, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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