Woman who was killed when Casper's police reacted to a burglary report lived in the house. Show court documents

A woman who was killed on Monday morning during an encounter with the police who reacts to a burglary report in a Casper residence is listed in the apartment in court documents.

The police have refused to say whether the person killed was a criminal suspect or the resident of the house, but court files that were examined by Wyofile point out that the woman, the 37-year-old Jody Cobia, lived legally in the house.

Casper's police officers reacted to the 1600 block of the South McKinley Street, a residential area in the central part of the city, on Monday at 12:36 p.m. According to a police statement, they reacted to a report on an armed burglar in the residence.

The officials “contacted a subject armed with a firearm” were fired and the woman was then taken to the hospital, where doctors declared her dead, the explanation says.

The explanation is not expressly about whether official Cobia shot. “Shots were fired during the encounter,” it says.

A department officer refused to provide additional information on Monday morning, including the question of whether the person who was shot at home, citing the early phases of the investigation.

In the early Monday afternoon, the Coroners office of Natrona County identified the dead woman as a cobia. Court files tested by Wyofile show that they had the sole legal ownership of the house as part of a protective arrangement granted in August, although the tax documents put the house in the name of their husband.

After the submissions, Cobia was a mother of three children and was in the early phases of a divorce from her husband. Court files state that Cobia applied for and received a judge in August for a protective arrangement of her husband.

This protective arrangement checked by Wyofile granted the Cobia property of the house, 1623 S. McKinley Street by August this year. In several court documents, the address of the McKinley Street is listed as your apartment.

On Monday in the morning, a Wyofile journalist found that the door of the S. McKinley Street 1623 remained slightly open, although there was no further evidence of an active examination of crime scene almost 12 hours after the shootout.

On Monday, the Casper Police Captain Jeremy Tremel declined whether the shot of the person at home or a suspect was or whether there was a suspect on site. “Everything I can tell you now is that we answered a report on a suspected break -in,” he said.

He did not immediately answer a second request for comments after the forensic doctor published his identification.

Cobia's husband Aren Cobia stated that he was in the house in a divorce petition that was submitted at the beginning of this month. In the court files, Jody Cobia will also be served with the divorce petition at the address of the South McKinley Street on April 15.

Arene, in short from Wyofile, asked Cobia at time to mourn the death of Jody Cobia, and declined to make a comment otherwise. Aren Cobia told a reporter from a different news agency, the Cowboy State Daily that there was no burglar in the house and the police had killed his wife.

The Wyoming Department for Criminal Investigations will examine the shootout. According to police shootings, it is typical for DCI to carry out an examination and then provide the results of this review to a chosen lawyer of the district. The prosecutor then decides whether civil servants should claim for crimes or not. In some cases, the prosecutors refer this decision to a lawyer of external districts in order to also make the examination independent.

According to the department of the department, the officials involved in the shootout are now on administrative leave.

Officials described the person who was shot in this press release, not only as a “issue armed with a firearm”. Due to the ambiguity of the official declaration, the commentators described on social media and two Wyoming news agencies to the deceased as criminal suspects.

“The alleged burglar that was dead in the Casper police,” was the heading of a first daily history of the Cowboy State, which was online all in the morning. In the early afternoon, the news page had updated this heading on “One Dead at Officer-Involved Shooting during the Casper Burglary” and the website had issued a correction.

“Suspicious dead after the Casper police reacted to an armed burglary,” said Oil City News from Casper-News.

On Facebook, a large number of commentators praised the officials who reacted to the house and in several cases struck a break -in that suspects deserved to be killed. “Finally a story with a happy ending,” wrote a commentator. “He clearly appreciated her things than his life and got what he deserved,” wrote another.

Wyofile editor Joshua Wolfson contributed to Casper's reporting.