Police: Woman who was killed in Casper, called 911 and then focused on the incoming officers

The woman killed by the Casper police, who answered an armed burglar report, took the 911 call, who pulled the official to her door, said the department on Wednesday.

A caller who identified himself as a Jody Cobia called a break -in in her house in the South McKinley Street in Casper shortly after midnight on April 28th. She told the dispatcher that an armed and dangerous burglar who was dressed in black had broken into her house and was in a back room, and she asked the officials to hurry and enter the house, according to the police account.

She then ended the call.

When the officers arrived on the property, Cobia opened the front door. “The officers immediately met a large dog and Cobia with a firearm at their side,” wrote the department in a statement. Cobia started screaming – the publication does not say what she said – and focused on the weapon on officers that she shot.

Cobia was brought to the Wyoming Medical Center in Casper, where the doctors declared her dead.

The police did not find anyone in the house, and there was no evidence of a forced entry into the house or someone who fled in front of the property, the department reported in the statement on Wednesday.

“Although this call occurred as a break -in, there is no evidence of a burglar in the study at this point and it seems as if Jody Cobia had the call to investigate a police answer,” the explanation said. The police did not classify why they believe that they deliberately pulled the police into their house or what intentions Cobia's intentions had to make the call.

The three leaders involved in the shootout remain on administrative leave because the Wyoming department for criminal investigations carries out a review. Both the vacation and the participation of DCI are routine steps according to the police shootings. DCI's investigation work is made available to the public prosecutor's office in Natrona for deciding on taking fatal violence.

The department promised to publish a “Critical Incident Briefing Video”, which normally contains extracts from body camera film material and a police story of events before the shootout.

In the press release, the department criticized media reporting on the shootout. “The latest reporting on the media has led to confusion, the spread of inaccurate or incomplete information and social media speculations,” wrote the department. “Factual information is published by the investigative agency when it becomes available.”

A first explanation last week in which the shootout was announced only indicated limited details. Only that the police reacted to a report on an armed break -in and shot and killed someone. In the press release it was not stated that the person killed was a legal inhabitant of the house, and there was also no determination whether there was a suspect.

Due to the ambiguity of this first statement, the commentators on social media and some Wyoming news agencies describe the dead person as a criminal suspect who was killed when attempting a burglary. Reporters from Wyofile and Cowboy State Daily then identified the dead woman as legal residents of the house with court files and interviews.

Before Wyofile published a story last week, he looked for additional details and other comments from the department, including the question of whether the person killed was the suspect or a resident of the house. The police did not answer these questions at that time.