Newark, NJ: Newark man who escaped girlfriend's shooting killed by gunmen

By David Giambusso/The Star-Ledger
October 24, 2009, 6:08PM

A Newark man who barely escaped with his life after his girlfriend shot him in August, was killed this morning, authorities said.
"He was the boyfriend at the time and he was the victim in this case," said Paul Loriquet, spokesman for the Essex County Prosecutor’s office.
Louis Goosby, 28, was standing outside his Morris Avenue home in Newark when, according to a witness, two men approached him at roughly 2:30 a.m. today and fired a single shot at close range. Goosby was pronounced dead at 4 a.m. at University Hospital, Loriquet said.
Two months ago, Goosby was shot three times in the leg and ear by his girlfriend, Essex County corrections officer Kelly R. McKenith, following a quarrel. McKenith had agreed to surrender to police after shooting Goosby, but instead shot and killed the couple’s 4-month-old son and herself.
Authorities have made no arrests in the killing, and no connection has been made to the August killings.
According to King Sau, Goosby’s uncle as well as a leader of the advocacy group Street Warriors, Goosby had escaped death several times, but eventually the trouble that followed him throughout his life caught up with the Newark native. Sau did not believe last night’s shooting was related to McKenith.
"With Louis, a lot of people were just wondering when," Sau said. When Goosby was a child, he fell out of a five story window and survived. He watched as his brother was shot and killed last year, according to Sau. This summer, he escaped death once again after his soft-spoken girlfriend opened fire on Goosby with her 9 mm service weapon before killing herself and their baby.
Goosby struggled with the law since he was 16-years-old, according to Department of Corrections records. In 1998 he was convicted of 2 counts of death by auto, weapons possession and receiving stolen property. In June of 2003 he was convicted of selling drugs on school property and in December of the same year he was convicted again of weapons possession.
The former Essex County inmate had scheduled a new court date for an outstanding warrant after the August shooting, but authorities declined to be more specific about the charges.
According to Sau, Goosby struggled to stay out of trouble, but his past and surroundings proved to be too much of an obstacle.
"It’s just that Louis was like the average young African American in the community -- being in the wrong place at the wrong time," he said.
Donna McKenith, mother of Kelly McKenith, said she heard about Goosby’s death this morning after a family friend called them with the news. She said she doesn’t think any of her daughter’s friends would be involved in Goosby’s killing, nor did she know why he was killed.
"We think it’s sad," McKenith said from her South Carolina home. "He’s still somebody’s child. If Kelly was here, she would be devastated."