Cove teen arrested for aggravated robbery

By LYNETTE SOWELL
Cove Leader-Press 

18-year-old Dezay Mario Cooks was arrested by Copperas Cove police on Christmas Eve for an aggravated robbery which occurred on December 19. 
According to the arrest affidavit filed against Cooks, an officer with the Copperas Cove Police Department was dispatched to Dollar General on 814 N. Main St. shortly after 5 a.m. on the morning of December 20 “in reference to information about a shots fired call the police department received at approximately 2330 hours on 12/19/2017.”  
The officer was advised he should meet with a Demaris Quental Jenks who stated he was shot at by Cooks. 
Cooks, along with three other individuals, had allegedly arrived at Jenks’ residence because Jenks said he was attempting to trade shoes with one of the individuals named Vincent, someone with whom Jenks said he had traded for shoes on a prior occasion. 
However, Vincent didn’t have the shoes when they arrived, after which they left, and then returned again to Jenks’ residence on Golf Course Road. Cooks allegedly grabbed a gun from the passenger side of the car, pointed it at Cooks, then shouted at him. 
Jenks said he then ran toward his apartment and Cooks shot at him.  
Cooks was booked into the Coryell County Jail on Christmas Day and remains there on a $53,000 bond.