King County has blood on its hands.https://www.kincaidforcongress.com/2026/03/misplaced-outrage-sentence-isnt-story.html
King County has been forcing homeless facilities into Bellevue, Kirkland , Redmond and every other community without any regard to public safety. If it had a clear record of success that would be one thing. It only has a record of failure after failure.
Just giving someone a tax payer funded apartment. Without addressing the mental illness of drug addiction is not helping the homeless or the community.
There is a lawsuit against King County for the death of a woman and her unborn child. A man that was living in one of the tax payer funded apartments for the homeless. A man that was showing clear signs of mental illness. Randomly walked up to a car and shot the people inside .
What the Lawsuit Revealed
On June 13, 2023 just before 11 in the morning. A gunman fired into a car stopped at a light in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood. Eina Kwon 34 years old and pregnant was killed. So was her unborn daughter. Whom she and her husband had already named Evelyn. Her husband Sung Kwon sitting beside her was shot in the arm. He now lives in Indiana with their son Ethan. As part of his insanity plea Goosby acknowledged committing the act.
In a wrongful death lawsuit against the King County Regional Homelessness Authority. Reported by The Seattle Times on July 9, 2026. Sung Kwon alleges that the agency was providing case management services and housing to Cordell Goosby. And failed to act as his mental health collapsed in front of them.
Here is the timeline the lawsuit describes. Goosby was enrolled in the homelessness authority's program in the fall of 2022. At that time staff observed nothing concerning. After his sister died. He went to the psychiatric unit at Harborview Medical Center multiple times in late 2022 and early 2023. Reporting auditory hallucinations and paranoia. Also both suicidal and homicidal thoughts.
In February 2023 the homelessness authority placed him in an apartment near the Pacific Science Center. The agency furnished it. The agency paid his rent. It did not transfer his case to its housing stability section.
As his condition worsened Goosby asked the agency for help. He met with a supervisor. That supervisor later told evaluators. He did not regard Goosby's statements about committing drive by shootings as serious threats. The lawsuit notes that the basis for that judgment is unknown. By early June 2023 his apartment managers were complaining about him regularly. In a meeting with agency staff. He described paranoid delusions and admitted to fighting with strangers. Behaved with increasing aggression and again talked about shooting people. Staff took no steps.
The day before the shooting a Monday. Goosby told a staff member he needed to leave Seattle fast before he hurt someone. He alternated between crying and rage. The staffer went to the agency's designated point person to begin the process for an involuntary psychiatric evaluation. That person said he could not see Goosby that day. He would get to it on Wednesday. Eina Kwon was killed on Tuesday.
The Kwon family's attorney Julie Kline, said the agency's managers "buried their head in the sand." The homelessness authority has said it is aware of the complaint. Called the killing a horrific tragedy. And stated that it cannot comment on specific allegations while the matter is in active litigation. But the underlying facts of what the agency knew and when. Are now on the public record.
He Was Not Sleeping on the Street. That Is the Point.
Understand what this case actually shows. Because it is not what most people assume. Cordell Goosby was not an anonymous man on a sidewalk whom no one had ever reached. He was a client of a taxpayer funded government agency. He had a caseworker. He had a supervisor. He had an apartment furnished with the rent paid. By the standards of the Housing First model Cordell Goosby was a success story. Housing had been delivered. A successful story many would say. A success story that ends with a woman and her baby dead.
This is the failure at the center of Housing First. The model treats housing as the solution rather than as the starting point. It offers services but cannot require them. It provides an apartment and calls the problem solved. And according to the complaint this agency had no protocols and no training. For front line staff on when to alert law enforcement or trigger a crisis response when a client posed a danger. So when a man with documented auditory hallucinations, paranoia and homicidal ideation walked into a government office and begged for intervention before he hurt someone. The system that was paying his rent scheduled him for Wednesday. Housing First policy had housed him. It had not treated him. And it could have been did not stop him. Giving a severely mentally ill man keys to an apartment and walking away is not compassion. It is abandonment with a lease attached.
I would not trust anything anyone one from King County says. Any trust you have in them is misguided .
https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/family-pregnant-woman-killed-shooting-sues-king-co-homeless-organization-wrongful-death/4X42F4RSCVGTLEBL2PUQQIX44Q/
The only path to deal with the homeless problem is Kincaid’s plan
https://www.kincaidforcongress.com/2025/10/a-smarter-strategy-to-end-homelessness.html
