On December 1, 2018, a shooting beside the Salvation Army shelter on Maxwell Boulevard left one man dead and Geraldine Talley, 54, gravely wounded. Police found the victims in a wooded area in the 900 block as daylight faded; Talley had been shot in the face and was taken to a hospital after emergency treatment. The man killed that night was later identified as Stephen Hamby.

The case grew quiet for a time amid sparse public details about motive. In June 2020 the Montgomery County District Attorney’s cold case unit announced charges tying the December 2018 double shooting to Ibraheem Yazeed, who was already jailed in an unrelated high-profile homicide. Authorities said Yazeed faced a charge in Hamby’s killing and an attempted murder charge for the woman shot in the face, consistent with Talley’s injury as reported from the scene. Some later accounts note Talley ultimately died of natural causes after surviving the attack, while the 2018 shooting remained the critical event that prompted the investigation.

Did anyone in Montgomery know Geraldine Talley or recall the area around Maxwell Boulevard that night?