By the edhat staff A retired Ventura Police officer has been named as the gunman in a deadly shooting at Cook's Corner in Orange County on Wednesday evening. Retired Sergeant John Snowling, 59, served at the Ventura Police Department from July 1986 through February 2014 until retiring. Orange County Sheriff’s officials received a 911 call just after 7 p.m. about a shooting at Cook’s Corner, a popular bar and restaurant on Santiago Canyon Road. The first deputies arrived within minutes and found a man with a gun. Deputies opened fire and killed Snowling.