On September 4, 2023, at about 11:30 AM, Dallas police responded to a shooting in the 4700 block of Denley Drive and found 51-year-old Absolom Errock Cobbs with multiple gunshot wounds. Dallas Fire-Rescue attended but Cobbs died at the scene. The person who confronted Cobbs was his landlord, 45-year-old Damien Walker, who told officers he believed Cobbs was selling drugs from the residence and demanded that he leave. Walker said Cobbs grabbed him, he pushed Cobbs away and shot him; Walker admitted firing once and then several more times after Cobbs had fallen, saying he thought Cobbs was reaching for a weapon but also saying he never actually saw a weapon. Detectives found a firearm in another room of the property but none in the room where Cobbs was shot. Walker was taken into custody and charged with murder.

Cobbs was born September 26, 1971, in Dallas and attended schools in the Dallas and Richardson Independent School Districts. Family remembered him as outgoing with a sense of humor who enjoyed time with relatives; he is survived by his mother, Jeanetta Yeager-Cobbs, his son Elijah Cobbs, and several siblings. Did anyone in the Dallas area know Absolom or have information about the events at the Denley Drive residence?