SHOCKING VERDICT: Man Who Admitted to Fatally Shooting Pregnant Woman Found Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity
A man who admitted to fatally shooting a pregnant woman was found not guilty by reason of insanity.
As previously reported, a pregnant woman was shot and killed in her car at a Seattle intersection in June 2023.
Eina Kwon, 34, a mother of a 2-year-old child, was senselessly murdered while sitting in her car with her husband.
Her unborn child died following the shooting.
According to reports, the suspect, 30-year-old Cordell Maurice Goosby, ran up to the driver’s side of the vehicle and fired several shots before running away.
Eina Kwon was struck several times and her husband, Sung-hyun Kwon, was shot in the arm.
Kwon was rushed to a nearby hospital so her baby could be delivered by emergency C-section but it was too late.
The young mother and her unborn baby died.
Her husband survived.
At the time of the shooting, Goosby told police he thought he saw a gun in the car and acted in self-defense when he fired on the couple, however, video revealed he was lying.
“No amount of justice will bring that family home again,” Seattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz said at the time of the senseless murder.
“We know that this has great impacts to the community, not only the greater community, but the Korean community. I have been in conversations and communications with members throughout the community to try and ensure that we are doing everything we can to make this community safe,” he said.
On Friday, Goosby was found not guilty by way of insanity.
KIRO 7 News reported:
The man accused of shooting and killing a woman and her unborn child in Belltown in June of 2023 has been found not guilty by reason of insanity.
Cordell Goosby will be sent to a psychiatric hospital like Western State, potentially for the rest of his life.
He is accused of walking up to a car near Fourth and Lenora and opening fire, killing a pregnant woman and her unborn child and injuring her husband in what investigators described as a random attack.
Goosby was arrested shortly after the shooting. Court proceedings after the arrest included discussion over his psych evals, which featured a history of hard drug use. Lawyers argued over whether he was competent to stand trial.
“Mr. Goosby previously did have competency issues and went through competency restoration,” Gabrielle Charlton, chair of the Felony Competency and Forensic Mental Health Unit at the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, said in a prerecorded statement.
Goosby was eventually found competent to stand trial, but the insanity plea is different; it deals with his mental state at the time of the shooting. The insanity was confirmed by experts hire by both the defense and prosecution.
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