PLAINVIEW, N.Y. (1010 WINS) – Two men were convicted on murder and weapons possessions charges on Tuesday for fatally shooting a Long Island father during a 2020 road-rage incident, Nassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly announced.
Douglas Coudrey, 26, and Kenneth Regan, 25, were convicted of murder and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon.
On the evening of Jan. 14, 2020, Justin Gottlieb, a 27-year-old electrical engineer at a lighting company in Jericho, was driving home from work to Plainview in his red Ford Explorer.
According to authorities, Gottlieb had gotten into some sort of road-rage dispute with Coudrey and Regan, who followed him home in a white Ford Fusion.
At approximately 5:32 p.m. Gottlieb pulled up in front of his parents' home in Plainview, which was next door to his own home. The Ford Fusion pulled up next to Gottlieb's car shortly thereafter, and two shots were fired, striking Gottlieb in the leg and chest area.
Gottlieb ran into his parents' home where and told his family that the perpetrators were "two kids in a white Ford Fusion."
He was then rushed to Plainview Hospital where he was pronounced dead a short time later.
Gottlieb was engaged and had an infant daughter with his fiancée at the time of the shooting.
On Jan. 18, 2020, Coudrey and Regan allegedly shot another motorist on Interstate 80 in Lodi, New Jersey. One vehicle occupant was killed and another was injured. An investigation by the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office is ongoing.
The .9mm shell casings from the New Jersey case and the Nassau County case were determined to have been fired from the same gun.
Coudrey and Regan were arrested on Jan. 22, 2020, in Suffolk County by members of the Suffolk County Police Department and the New Jersey State Police.
They were charged in the Long Island murder on Feb. 6, 2020, by members of the Nassau County Police Department's Homicide Squad.
Coudrey and Regan are due back for sentencing on March 22, and face a potential maximum of 40 years to life in prison.
