Cops Sound Off

A Detroit police sergeant whose wife was shot to death in a suspected contract killing has been found hanged in a suburban park.Police tell the Detroit Free Press that 38-year-old Sgt. David Cobb was found dead Friday night in Sterling Heights, a city 15 miles north of downtown Detroit.Cobb’s 47-year-old wife, Rose, was fatally shot Dec. 26 in a parking lot on Detroit’s east side. In April, police arrested 27-year-old Vincent Smothers, who told police Cobb hired him to kill his wife.Smothers claimed Cobb was having an affair and wanted his wife’s life insurance money. He is awaiting trial for murder.Cobb was arrested a day …Read more […..]

PHILADELPHIA — A city police officer pursuing an armed suspect Tuesday afternoon was fatally shot, the fourth Philadelphia officer to die in the line of duty in the last year, authorities said. Another officer was wounded and the suspect was killed.The officer who died, Patrick McDonald, 30, was shot in the chest, Mayor Michael Nutter said. The other officer, 35-year-old Richard Bowes, was shot in the leg. He was in stable condition and expected to be OK, Nutter said.”We are in pain, and we are very angry about what’s going on here in our city,” Nutter said.Police said McDonald called for backup around 1:45 p.m., and …Read more […..]