{"id":11677,"date":"2025-07-21T00:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T00:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/11677\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T00:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T00:21:09","slug":"calgary-police-call-shooting-of-23-year-old-woman-a-very-cowardly-act-as-suspect-sought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/11677\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary police call shooting of 23-year-old woman &#8216;a very cowardly act&#8217; as suspect sought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police say the victim of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/calgary\/1-dead-in-southwest-calgary-shooting-police-say-1.7589497\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a fatal shooting<\/a> in the southwest Calgary community of Haysboro\u00a0on Saturday has been identified as 23-year-old Madisson Cobb.<\/p>\n<p>The Calgary Police Service homicide unit is investigating what they believe to have been a targeted shooting after Cobb was found\u00a0suffering from apparent\u00a0gunshot wounds around\u00a04:30 p.m. in a parking garage in\u00a0the 8700 block of Horton Road S.W.<\/p>\n<p>First responders attempted to save her life, but she was declared dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>No suspects were in custody as of Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Police believe\u00a0a white Toyota RAV4 with B.C. licence plate PP322J\u00a0is connected to the shooting.\u00a0They said the\u00a0vehicle was parked on the fourth level of the parking garage before the shooting occurred.<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy of Cobb&#8217;s body is scheduled for Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Police exploring &#8216;all avenues&#8217; of past relationships<\/p>\n<p>During a media availability on Sunday, Staff Sgt. Sean Gregson was asked if police suspect the perpetrator had\u00a0been in an intimate relationship with the victim.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can&#8217;t confirm that yet, but we are definitely exploring all those avenues of any past relationships that may have been involved,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if the victim had any restraining orders in place, he said the Calgary Police Service is &#8220;aware of the past incidents involving the victim,&#8221; but would not elaborate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our concentration right now is looking at locating the person responsible for this event,&#8221; he said, adding that gang activity is not believed to have been involved in the shooting.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A man in a suit.\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/haysboro-shooting.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.7771084337349397\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>Staff Sgt. Sean Gregson, with the Calgary Police Service&#8217;s Homicide Unit, pictured speaking to reporters during a media availability on July 20. (Terri Trembath\/CBC)<\/p>\n<p>Gregson called the shooting &#8220;a very cowardly act.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is tragic, it&#8217;s horrible, and it&#8217;s actually maddening\u00a0that somebody can&#8217;t, you know, walk to their vehicle safely in the city.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gregson said it is not believed that Cobb lived in the complex, which includes residential and commercial buildings.<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy of Cobb&#8217;s body is scheduled for Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Calgary Police Service is asking anybody with any information about the shooting,\u00a0or who had contact with Cobb\u00a0before the incident, or saw the vehicle in the parking garage to contact them at 403-266-1234.<\/p>\n<p>Police are also seeking any\u00a0dashcam footage taken between 3 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. on Saturday\u00a0of Horton Road S.W. at Heritage Drive S.W.\u00a0heading westbound toward\u00a014th Street S.W., or footage from the fourth level of the parking garage at that time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say the victim of\u00a0a fatal shooting in the southwest Calgary community of Haysboro\u00a0on Saturday has been identified&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-11677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}