Kosai Barouki, a 30-year-old White male, was killed in Philadelphia on December 14, 2008, after what was reported as an attempted robbery outside the place where he both lived and worked. In the early morning darkness, around 1:47 a.m. to 2:00 a.m., Barouki was outside his store/apartment on the 2300 block of South 65th Street when the robbery turned violent. He was shot in the chest and rushed to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was pronounced dead at 2:08 a.m.
The available reports describe the shooting as a robbery that went wrong, leaving Barouki fatally wounded just steps from his own business and home. The circumstances suggest he was targeted during the course of a street-level hold-up rather than in a documented dispute, though the public sources do not provide a detailed account of what was taken, whether there were witnesses, or how many people were involved. His death was recorded among Philadelphia's 2008 homicides, with the location, timing, and attempted-robbery motive consistently reported in the available online accounts.
No publicly available source located identifies a suspect by name. A Philadelphia homicide case listing records Barouki's case status as open with no arrest, and no later online reports located during the search indicated that anyone had been charged, tried, convicted, or sentenced in connection with his killing. Based on the available sources, the case remains unresolved publicly, with no confirmed arrests or named suspects tied to the fatal shooting.
