'Devon has a firearm': Woman's statement for restraining order details fear of ex, now accused of her murder
CBC
The ex-boyfriend of a Calgary woman fatally shot in a parking garage over the weekend has been charged with her murder, 53 days after the victim told a judge that she lived in fear after months of being stalked and harassed.
On Tuesday evening, Devon Bradley Malik, 26, appeared before a justice of the peace and was charged with first-degree murder in the death of Madisson Cobb, who was killed Saturday afternoon in a parking garage at Horton Road and Macleod Trail S.W., near her workplace.
Cobb's restraining order against Malik was supposed to be in place until June 2026.
Malik was not only bound by the conditions of the restraining order, he had also been charged twice since May 30 with stalking and harassing Cobb and was required to have no communication with her and to stay away from her home and workplace.
He is due back in court Wednesday.
As part of the restraining order, Cobb filed a handwritten affidavit detailing the "non-stop" harassment and stalking she'd experienced since January.
"I live in fear every day from him, I want him out of my life," wrote Cobb in her affidavit.
"I shake and have panic attacks when I'm out or hear my phone go off out of fear he is there."
Cobb also told the court that Malik had a gun.
"The RCMP made us aware that Devon has a firearm that they were unable to find," she wrote.
Included in the restraining order application are screen shots of text messages that appear to be from Malik. The text messages show a man, at times desperate to reunite with his girlfriend, at other times, angry at her rebuffs.
According to Cobb, she broke up with Malik on Jan. 28, 2025. That's when the unwanted daily phone calls and text messages began.
In early February, Cobb said Malik pretended to be in the hospital in an effort to get her to visit him.
Then in March, he did end up in hospital, after stabbing himself in the stomach.
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