Joshua Gossett, 32, was sentenced to 150 years in prison for killing two people in Memphis, Tennessee, including a Lyft driver he shot after using the service to flee the scene of the first murder.
Joshua Gossett was sentenced on July 1 to 150 years in prison by a Shelby County court. He was convicted in April of two counts of first-degree murder and related firearm charges in the deaths of Shunish Baggett and Richard Skelskey.
On October 30, 2022, Gossett used the Lyft app to reach Baggett's home on Wooddale Avenue. He shot and killed her inside the residence. Baggett's then-12-year-old daughter later found her body on the kitchen floor.
Gossett then requested another Lyft ride from the same location. Driver Richard Skelskey, 80, picked him up and was shot in the head. Gossett stole the vehicle and fled. Authorities identified him through surveillance footage, forensic evidence, and his digital records.
Skelskey's sister Carol Soto said her brother had recently begun driving for Lyft and Uber to earn extra income.