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A Dallas police officer was allegedly “executed” in a planned attack, according to officials
One of the two other officers who was shot is still in the hospital. The cops killed the man after a chase, according to the officials.
Thursday night, a police officer in Dallas was shot and killed in what authorities called a deliberate execution.
The 46-year-old officer, Darron Burks, was parked in his patrol car in the city’s Oak Cliff district, southwest of downtown when a guy approached him from the driver’s side of the vehicle during a pause between chores. The suspect spoke with Officer Burks briefly before shooting him; it appeared that he had recorded the exchange on his cellphone.
Two other officers were shot by the suspect while they were checking on Officer Burks, who had not responded to a dispatcher’s attempt to contact him, officials said. Senior Corporal Jamie Farmer, who was shot in the leg, has been released from the hospital. Senior Corporal Karissa David, who was shot in the face, remains in critical but stable condition.
The suspect, identified by officials as Corey Cobb-Bey, 30, fled the scene. After officers pursued him onto an expressway, he got out of his vehicle with a gun, approached the officers and pointed his weapon, the police said. Six officers then fired, fatally shooting him. It was unclear on Saturday what might have motivated the attack.
At a news conference on Friday, Eddie Garcia, the Dallas police chief, said the information the force gathered made it clear that Officer Burks was killed in a targeted attack. “I know that the word ‘ambush’ has been thrown around in the last 24 hours or so,” he said. “That’s not what happened here. Officer Burks was executed.”
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Some locals compared the savage way the police said Officer Burks was killed to a shooting in downtown Dallas in 2016 in which a heavily equipped sniper shot and killed five officers as part of a demonstration against deadly police shootings. Since September 11, that shooting has still the bloodiest assault on law enforcement in history.
Taylor Toynes, the creator of For Oak Cliff, the community center where Officer Burks was parked prior to his death, expressed his hatred that it had to occur again.
Former math teacher at a high school, Officer Burks completed his police academy training in December. According to his LinkedIn profile, he attended Paul Quinn College, a historically Black Methodist institution in Dallas. He was the president of his fraternity, Omega Psi Phi, and played football there.
Friends from all walks of life, including football teammates, fraternity brothers, fellow educators, former pupils, and classmates, expressed their sorrow on social media. They characterized him as a man who was pleased to be a police officer and committed to improving his neighborhood.
On Friday, hundreds of people attended a candlelight vigil at the community center where Officer Burks was killed, and Dallas’ city flags were flying at half-staff. Prominent figures such as Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson expressed their endorsement.
“Dallas has lost a hero,” Mr. Johnson said in his statement:
A Dallas police officer was allegedly “executed” in a planned attack, according to officials
Chief Garcia stated that Mr. Cobb-Bey had posted on Thursday insinuating that a “event” was taking place on Friday, despite having previously voiced issues in his personal and professional life on the internet.
Mr. Cobb-Bey asked, “Is there any problem, officers?” to police in an unmarked, parked car in a video that he uploaded to social media earlier this week.
He identified himself as a “Moorish American National” and used passages from the obscure religious group the Moorish Science Temple of America’s holy book in some of his other writings.
Ladarrian Brooks, 39, who claimed to be Mr. Cobb-Bey’s brother, said the family was shocked to learn of the shooting and his brother’s passing.
Mr. Brooks said he had been in regular contact with Mr. Cobb-Bey and had seen him in person as recently as Aug. 21. At that time, he said, nothing seemed off.
He said, “We pray for all the best for everyone that was involved. This is a very unfortunate situation.”
On August 31, 2024, the following change was made: the surname of the deceased police officer was spelled incorrectly in a previous version of the photo caption. Not Burke, but Burks.
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