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Mattie Lou Jones, a 73-year-old grandmother from Stuart, Florida, was struck and killed by a stray bullet on Thanksgiving night, November 24, 2022. She had been watching television in her living room after the family’s meal when a bullet from a street gunfight outside her home smashed through a window and hit her in the face. Two other people were critically injured in the same triple-shooting incident.

Police identified 19-year-old Lonnie Bee Smalls III as a suspect and arrested him on a probation violation charge about six hours after the shooting; he was charged with first-degree murder and three counts of attempted first-degree murder and held without bond. The family remembered Jones as a loving mother, grandmother, and active church member. What does anyone who lived nearby that night remember seeing or hearing that could help clarify what happened?