An autopsy showed that Winston-Salem police shot a man 10 times in his chest and torso after the man fired on the officers in December 2019. The incident took place
Cobb was shot and killed Dec. 20 by a coworker at the city s public works building at 2000 Lowery St. The shooter, Steven Dewayne Haizlip, 61, went into the building and shot Cobb multiple times, Winston-Salem police said at the time.
Haizlip then turn his gun on police officers before they shot and killed him, police said. Haizlip came to work with two handguns and the intentions of killing his co-worker, police said.
Video footage showed that a fight between Cobb and Haizlip began in a break room, the autopsy said. Cobb was initially shot and ran into an adjacent room, where he fell and was shot several more times.