[1][2] The morning of Tuesday, July 8, the regional director for Starbucks, Dean Torrenga, toured the crime scene with police.
He said, "nothing [like this] in the history of the company... has ever happened..."[2] On the evening of Monday, March 1, 1999, Carl Derek Cooper was arrested and brought in for questioning in relation to a 1996 attempted murder of an off-duty Prince George's County police officer.
[4] On March 5, Keith Covington, was questioned by Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia and the FBI for 15 hours.
In total, he pled guilty to 47 criminal counts as part of the plea bargain, in which prosecutors agreed at Cooper's behest not to charge his mother or his wife with related lesser crimes.
Kenneth L. Wainstein, at the time an assistant U.S. attorney, described Cooper in court as the head of a thriving criminal business primed to use violence at the slightest sign of resistance.