{"id":2021625,"date":"2023-09-04T17:58:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T21:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-bar-reopens-after-mass-shooting-residents-mourn-victims\/"},"modified":"2023-09-04T18:01:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T22:01:27","slug":"california-bar-reopens-after-mass-shooting-residents-mourn-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-bar-reopens-after-mass-shooting-residents-mourn-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"California bar reopens post-mass shooting, residents mourn victims."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcalifornia-bar-reopens-after-mass-shooting-residents-mourn-victims%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2021625&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Tragedy Strikes at Cook&#8217;s Corner: A Community in Mourning<\/h2>\n<p>TRABUCO\u200d CANYON, Calif.\u2014When\u2064 Ann Marie Jensen pulled her car up next to a silver pickup truck in the back\u2062 parking lot at Cook\u2019s Corner on Aug. 23, little\u200d did she realize she\u2063 was\u2062 mere feet away \u2063from the gunman \u200bwho would take three people\u2019s lives and injure six others just minutes\u2062 later.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly two weeks later, she found herself standing in front of a growing \u2062monument for Tanya Clark, 49, of Scottsdale, \u2063Arizona, John Leehey, 67, of Irvine, and Glen Sprowl Jr.,\u200c 53, of \u2064Stanton\u2014who\u200b died in the shooting after a former\u2064 Ventura police officer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-seal-sets-dem-reverend-straight-after-he-mocked-armed-churchgoers\/\" title=\"Former SEAL Sets Dem Reverend Straight After He Mocked Armed Churchgoers\">opened fire<\/a>\u200b on his estranged wife and others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s beyond a\u200c shock because \u200cnever in your life do\u2062 you think that\u2063 you would be a statistic of a mass shooting,\u201d she told\u200c The Epoch \u200bTimes. \u201cI saw Tanya, she was celebrating her birthday, and \u200bI saw\u200d Marie.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/band-members-healing-after-cooks-corner-shooting-as-bar-reopening-date-uncertain-5482787\">Band Members Healing After\u2064 Cook&#8217;s Corner Shooting\u200c as Bar \u200bReopening Date Uncertain<\/a><br \/>\n      <br \/>\n      <span class=\"text-comp-caption\">8\/29\/2023<\/span>\n    <\/li>\n<li>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/gunman-first-opened-fire-on-estranged-wife-in-california-mass-shooting-sheriff-5480428\">Gunman First Opened Fire\u2064 on Estranged Wife in California Mass Shooting: Sheriff<\/a><br \/>\n      <br \/>\n      <span class=\"text-comp-caption\">8\/24\/2023<\/span>\n    <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The shooting occurred at about 7 p.m. \u2062at the historic restaurant on the 19100 block of Santiago Canyon Road.<\/p>\n<p>Patrons\u2064 and families were enjoying the restaurant\u2019s regular Wednesday night\u200d $8 spaghetti\u2062 dinner when John\u2063 Snowling entered \u200dand began firing, first toward his wife, Marie Snowling, before opening\u200c fire randomly.<\/p>\n<p>At\u2063 first, Ms. Jensen\u2014who was on her \u2064way \u2064to talk\u200d to a friend after \u2064ordering a drink and \u2064a plate of spaghetti\u2014mistook the\u2064 shots for fireworks, she said.<\/p>\n<p>But then she realized.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI screamed \u2018That\u2019s gun smoke,\u2019 and\u2063 we started running,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>One \u2064of\u200b her friends, Mr. Leehey,\u2063 was shot and fell to\u2064 the ground soon after.<\/p>\n<p>Mr.\u2064 Snowling was\u2063 fatally shot during an exchange of gunfire with Orange County sheriff deputies several minutes after they responded to multiple 911 calls at the location.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just had a conversation with \u200cJohn \u2062 [Leehey] not too <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heres-to-new-life-in-the-new-year\/\" title=\"Here's to New Life in the New Year\">long ago<\/a>. He was a landscape architect, and we were talking about gardening,\u201d she said. \u201cHe\u2019s such a \u200dnice guy and I just can\u2019t believe \u200che\u2019s \u2063gone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sept. 1 was\u200c the \u200bfirst time that Cook\u2019s Corner opened to the public since \u2062the shooting. Rhonda Palmeri, its general manager \u2062announced \u200dthe soft reopening in a video posted on Facebook earlier that week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe feel it\u2019s time to\u200d bring the family back together,&#8221; Ms. Palmeri said in the\u2062 video. \u201cWe want to be here for the community, \u2064and we need the community \u2062here for \u2063us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also announced that Orange County Supervisor Chair \u200cDon Wagner\u2019s \u200coffice will \u2062hold a vigil Sept. \u20636 \u2064at the Library of the Canyons at 7531 Santiago Canyon \u2064Road at \u20637 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. \u2063Wagner, who oversees the Trabuco \u2062Canyon area, said \u2064it \u200bis crucial for the community to\u200b unite and find comfort.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s important \u200cfor \u2062people to \u200dbe\u200d out here today. It\u2019s\u2064 important to start confronting\u200b the \u200devil that happened and \u200cfind\u200c ways \u2026 as a community\u2062 to move past this without ever \u2064forgetting the victims,\u201d he \u200ctold The\u2064 Epoch Times at Friday\u2019s memorial.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, he said that remembering and paying respects would help all begin the long journey of recovery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it speaks to the resilience of all of Orange County because, though, it&#8217;s \u200ca pillar\u200b of the canyons,\u2064 people come from all\u200b over \u2062the\u200c county\u200d and\u2063 beyond to be here, \u200dand every one\u200b of\u2063 them was\u200b attacked in a small way, and every one of them\u2063 can join in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leah-remini-says-her-16-year-old-daughter-keeps-her-woke\/\" title=\"Leah Remini Says Her 16-Year-Old Daughter Keeps Her \u2018Woke\u2019\">healing process<\/a>,\u201d he \u200dsaid.<\/p>\n<p>Though\u2063 the restaurant has always been \u200cknown as a \u201crough and tumble \u200bbiker bar,\u201d Mr. Wagner said, it also is \u2063a family place for \u200dthe community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[You see] the sign right \u2062there, \u2018Children\u2063 Welcome.\u2019 They were, they are, and they \u200dwill\u200d be again,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Cook&#8217;s Corner is known as a renowned bar\u200c and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-bar-reopens-after-mass-shooting-residents-mourn-victims\/\" title=\"California bar reopens post-mass shooting, residents mourn victims.\">popular biker gathering spot<\/a>. While its \u200borigins trace to the late \u20621800s, it\u2062 transformed into a restaurant\u200d in the 1920s.<\/p>\n<p>Like Ms. Jensen, \u200cwho started frequenting the restaurant in the 1980s, many other long-time customers\u200d also came to the memorial to support the community.<\/p>\n<p>Douglas Croson, a Mission\u2064 Viejo resident who \u200ccame with his young daughter, said that he\u2019s been coming to Cook\u2019s Corner since \u20631996.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s \u200bvery heavy \u2026\u201d he told \u2064The\u2063 Epoch Times. \u201cFor people who live close\u200b to here, this \u200cis home. It\u2019s a \u200cfamily, \u200da community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Buddy, \u200ba longtime patron at the\u200b restaurant, who only gave his first name, told\u200b The Epoch Times he felt a sense of comfort\u200d at the memorial.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u200c can\u200c see that\u2062 the staff I\u2019ve known here for years \u200dare safe and are healing,\u201d he \u200csaid. \u201cDarkness \u200dwalked \u200binto\u2063 Cook\u2019s Corner, but \u200bthat darkness isn\u2019t going to stay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mountain-biker-rescued-from-falling-down-a-cliff-with-a-helicopter\/\" title=\"Mountain Biker Rescued From Falling Down A Cliff With A Helicopter\">mountain biker<\/a> from\u200d Anaheim Hills, Qing Yu, said he had\u200b cycled past the restaurant for more than a decade and \u200dhad dined there several times. \u2064At the memorial Friday, he said it was difficult to witness such a tragic incident befall the local community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think humans need to look at themselves and really ask why they\u2019re here and why they are doing things \u2062they do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Jensen said she couldn\u2019t agree more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople need\u2063 to be kind to\u200b one another. You should always tell everybody \u200bthat\u2063 you love them every day,\u201d she\u200b said with tears in her eyes. \u201cI \u2064don\u2019t understand why our world has gotten\u200d so crazy. \u2062This kind of violence had to stop.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRABUCO CANYON, Calif.\u2014Unaware of the impending tragedy, Ann Marie Jensen parked her car beside a silver pickup truck at Cook&#8217;s Corner on Aug. 23. Little did she know, the gunman responsible for three deaths and six injuries was just feet away. 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