US man charged with murder after shooting South Korean pregnant restaurant owner to death
- Cordell Goosby shot and killed Eina Kwon in her car when she was heading to her sushi restaurant in Seattle
- Prosecutors said they are seeing whether they can also charge Goosby, who had a history of mental health issues, for the death of the baby girl the woman was carrying
A man who police said was exhibiting signs of a mental health crisis after he shot and killed a pregnant restaurant owner in her car in downtown Seattle this week was charged on Friday with first-degree murder in her death, and prosecutors said they are seeing whether they can also charge him for the death of the baby girl the woman was carrying.
Cordell M. Goosby, 30, was arrested on Tuesday soon after witnesses said he ran up to a car occupied by Eina Kwon, 34, and her husband, Sung Kwon, 37, the owners of a sushi restaurant near the city’s famed Pike Place Market, and started firing a stolen gun into the vehicle without provocation.
Eina Kwon, who was eight months pregnant, was killed. Sung Kwon suffered multiple gunshot wounds, and the fetus died soon after emergency delivery.
The King county prosecutor’s office said on Friday that state law allows murder charges to be brought if the victim was “born alive”; it is reviewing medical records to determine whether a murder charge is warranted for the baby’s death.
The prosecutor’s office sought that Goosby be held on US$10 million bail. It was not immediately clear if Goosby had a lawyer who could speak on his behalf.
