Moriah Hope Goode, an 18-year-old from Bradenton, Florida, was shot and killed on November 6, 2016. The shooting occurred in the late afternoon, about 4:30 p.m., in the 3300 block of Fourth Street East while Moriah was a passenger in a vehicle. She was taken to Manatee Memorial Hospital but died of a gunshot wound to the heart.

The incident followed an altercation between her friend Frank Brice and another man, Devon Lee Freeman. Freeman, 21 and from Sarasota, fired 18 rounds from a handgun; one round struck Moriah. Freeman was arrested on November 9, 2016, and charged with second-degree murder. His defense raised self-defense and stand-your-ground claims, asserting Brice had shown him a gun, but the court rejected the stand-your-ground defense. In January 2019 Freeman pleaded no contest to a reduced manslaughter charge and received a 13.5-year prison sentence, plus anger management and 18 months probation after release.

Moriah is remembered by family and friends as a vibrant young woman who had overcome serious health problems, including an autoimmune disease that had gone into remission after treatment. Does anyone have additional memories of Moriah or information about the case to share?