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What we know about Cook’s Corner mass shooter John Snowling

In this file photo, Ventura Police Officer John Snowling patrols the Pacific View Mall.

LOS ANGELES — The man who shot and killed three people and wounded six others Wednesday night at the Cook’s Corner biker bar in Trabuco Canyon has been identified as John Snowling, a retired officer from the Ventura Police Department, according to the Orange County district attorney’s office.

Snowling, 59, worked for the department from 1986 to 2014 and retired as a sergeant, according to a department spokesperson. He ran the Ventura Police Officers Assn. for years and came under criticism for disparaging polls he commissioned against then-Ventura City

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