They Found James Gottlieb's Killer ~Lilliana~

Hi guys, I posted about James a couple of weeks ago and here's an update of the situation:

Elizabeth Gottlieb has waited a month to see the man who killed her husband.

She said she has wondered what he would look like, what he would say and how he would explain what he did to her family. "I would want to look at him and ask, 'Do you know what you've done to my life? Do you know what you've done to my family?'" she said last night at her Garden City South home.

She called her son James Jr., 18, who is attending Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, yesterday afternoon to tell him about the arrest of Reginald Gousse, 31, the man police say killed her husband. She said her son told her, "I hope they kill this son of a gun."

Gottlieb said the four weeks since her husband, James, was pulled over by a man impersonating a police officer and shot to death on a Franklin Square street have been "a roller coaster." She looked every day in the newspaper and on television for news of the investigation.

She said she cried when she would least expect to and she never knew what to tell her 8-year-old daughter, Alicia, when she became frightened.

"She was afraid that this person would come into our house and hurt her," she said. "I'm so glad they arrested him. Now he won't be able to do this to anyone else."

Gottlieb said she wondered about the investigation every day. She knew it was important to police to capture someone who had impersonated them. But she didn't want to delay them with inquiries.

Sitting in her living room in front of a mantel lined with sympathy cards, Gottlieb recalled the night of Jan. 5, when her husband was killed.

When he was late coming home, she went out driving to look for him.

Less than a mile from home, she reached Semton Boulevard in Franklin Square and found it cluttered with police cars. She asked a police officer what had happened and then, "I just lost it."

Gottlieb said she plans to attend Gousse's arraignment this morning in Hempstead.

"I was hoping every day that they would find him," she said. "I can't be happy because my husband is gone, but at least they've found the man who killed him."

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