Posted on 12/28/2022 6:39:54 AM PST by DogByte6RER
An 80-year-old Norco market owner whose videotaped shooting of a would-be robber in July made national headlines and spawned a get-tough slogan to commemorate the confrontation, died Tuesday, Dec. 27, two months after suffering a stroke.
Craig Cope’s death was confirmed by the market, Norco Mayor Kevin Bash and the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office, which is prosecuting the four men charged in the case.
“We lost our Craig this morning. I’m sorry I am without words right now but I promised to not leave you in the dark,” an unnamed employee of the Norco Market & Liquor posted on the store’s Facebook page. The employee said a memorial service would be held at the store on an unspecified date.
Cope had a stroke on Oct. 18 that left him unable to speak, according to another of the store’s Facebook posts. A post on Dec. 14 said Cope had not made any progress.
Cope died at his home, said Amy McKenzie, a spokeswoman for the district attorney’s office.
At about 2:47 a.m. on July 31, Cope, who was doing paperwork at the Sixth Street store, watched on surveillance video as a car rolled up occupied by four people wearing masks and gloves and carrying guns.
Two people entered, one carrying what appeared to be an assault rifle, who pointed it at Cope, the District Attorney’s Office said. Cope armed himself with a shotgun that he kept behind the counter.
“He pointed the gun directly at me,” Cope would later say. “It took me half a second to react. It was him or me.”
Cope fired one shot.
“He shot my arm off!” one apparent robber is heard saying on surveillance video.
(Excerpt) Read more at eastbaytimes.com ...
Craig Cope, holding a check he received from the community in August 2022 after his liquor store was robbed in July, talks outside the store with employees Tamara Gibbons and Marnie Tapia. Cope, 80, who suffered a stroke in October, died on Dec. 27. (Photo by Milka Soko, Contributing Photographer)
R.I.P. Craig Cope
Condolences can be posted at Mr. Cope’s business Facebook page at:
https://www.facebook.com/norcomarket/
How many on the Left will celebrate this hero’s death?
I remember that very well. He was a sharpshooter from behind the pharmacy window. I was thinking even then, this might be too much stress for an 80 year old man. Even a positive event can be stressful to the elderly person, if it rips up their usual days routine.
My Dad was that way in his 80’s.
They should charge the robber(s) with murder. Clearly the stress from that event led to the owner’s stroke and death.
No.
He was vaxxed.
Vax is now # 1 cause of strokes and heart attack events.
Too bad he didn’t blow Rasheed’s low-IQ head off.
"Right to a speedy trial" my aching ass!
And elderly man was put in a life or death situation which leads to his early death and you try to change the narrative.
Nice.
Is Rasheed’s nickname now “Lefty?”
didn’t you mean a covid vaxxed elderly man?
lots of 80 year olds can handle stress and guns better than younger folks.
the gun and the “trauma” of using it on a criminal does not cause heart attacks or strokes per se to an older shotgun using expert... but the vax.
most definitely does.
Jeffrey Dahmer, is that you?
vaxxers live in denial.
strokes and SDS are one of the symptoms of a covid vaccination.
don’t let the vax or the facts eat your brain...
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