The prosecutor told the Post that the collection of evidence in the case was ongoing and that video footage showed Cook following Colie around the mall.Ĭook’s father, Jeramy, said he and his family were confident he would recover fully. The local county’s top prosecutor later told the Washington Post that Cook could be charged separately if evidence surfaces that he threatened or touched Colie. There was a preliminary court hearing in the case tentatively scheduled for early May. Officers booked him over assault and battery, but the case was dismissed in 2014.Ī judge ordered Colie detained without bond after Cook’s shooting. In that case, Colie allegedly told police he had become angry for a few minutes and was unsure of what happened next. It does not appear that Cook was aware Colie had been accused of violent behavior at least once previously.Ī criminal complaint reviewed by the Loudoun Times-Mirror said Colie’s father accused his son of punching him twice in the head in 2012. He told WUSA that the video his friend captured had been given to investigators.
Sunday’s shooting certainly appears to be the most violent response yet to Cook. In one video, a man being pranked runs at the camera, and in another clip a store manager calls the police. Sometimes people in the clips are provoked into dramatic reactions. It also said Colie was sitting in the shopping center’s food court near a pistol when officers arrested him and subsequently booked him on counts of aggravated malicious wounding, shooting in the commission of a felony, and discharging a firearm within an occupied building.Ĭook’s page contains clips of him acting as if he is vomiting on ride-sharing service drivers, making a fast-food restaurant employee nervous by going behind the establishment’s counter, and bothering people at stores. The complaint did not specify a motive for the attack, saying only it resulted from an interaction between Colie and Cook. “I was playing a … simple … joke, and this guy didn’t take it very well,” Cook told WUSA from his hospital bed.Ĭook said the man who shot him “didn’t say anything” before firing on him, which authorities said also caused a panic among mall-goers.Ī criminal complaint filed against Colie after the shooting identified Cook as his alleged victim, according to a report in the local Loudoun Times-Mirror. Cook, 21, survived the wound and had to undergo surgery after first responders brought him to a hospital in critical condition.
The man, identified as 31-year-old Alan Colie, pulled a gun out and shot Cook in the stomach, investigators allege.
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