Rose Cobb, 47
Detroit, Michigan
December 26, 2007
Agencies: Detroit Police Department Michigan
Cause of death: Shooting
Last updated: over 3 years ago
Overview 
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.
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- https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2008-09-28-0809270390-story.html added September 09, 2020 04:06
- https://behindthebluewall.blogspot.com/2008/04/mi-sgt-cobb-hired-hitman-arrested-for.html added September 09, 2020 04:06
- https://www.websleuths.com/forums/threads/mi-rose-cobb-47-dies-in-contract-killing-detroit-26-dec-2007.57832/ added September 09, 2020 04:06
- https://michiganoidv.blogspot.com/2007/12/rose-cobb-murder-case.html added September 09, 2020 04:06
- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dKmaV_JiWcG8XBoRgP8b4e9Eopkpgt7FL7nyspvzAsE/edit#gid=0 added September 09, 2020 03:55