Crime & Safety

OC Father 'Extremely Relieved' After Daughter Survives Mass Shooting

The Lake Forest man heard his daughter was killed in Wednesday night's mass shooting at a famed biker bar in Trabuco Canyon.

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In an image from video, authorities work at the scene of a fatal shooting Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023, at Cook's Corner, a biker bar in rural Trabuco Canyon, Calif., in Orange County.
In an image from video, authorities work at the scene of a fatal shooting Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023, at Cook's Corner, a biker bar in rural Trabuco Canyon, Calif., in Orange County. (ABC7 Los Angeles via AP)

LAKE FOREST, CA — An Orange County father was "extremely relieved" to discover that his daughter was alive, after hearing that she had been killed in Wednesday's night mass shooting at the Cook's Corner bar, the OC Register reported.

William Mosby, of Lake Forest, heard the news when he turned on a television broadcast Wednesday night. According to the report, Mosby said he was "extremely relieved" to learn that his daughter was not dead, though she was brought into Providence Mission Hospital Wednesday night and moved to UCI Medical Center.

“Her friend in the bar said she was shot in the lower jaw," he told the newspaper.

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Mosby told the newspaper that his daughter had gone through a divorce with her ex-husband, who he said was ex-law enforcement from the Camarillo area and "a crazy husband, who couldn't deal with the divorce."

To read more about the Lake Forest father's experience during Wednesday night's mass shooting, view the full article on the Orange County Register.

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