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Maxine Gooden, 43, was killed by a stray bullet while talking with her daughter and friends at Lione Park in Stamford, Connecticut, on the evening of November 2, 2015. A mother of five known for selling Jamaican food at the park, she was taken to Stamford Hospital after the shooting but died a short time later.

Witnesses chased the suspects and noted a getaway vehicle plate, leading police to stop a black Jeep minutes later and arrest three men: Jhonel Telemin (also reported as Jhonel Telemin-Valerio), Deshawn Hayes, and Morris Joel Moore Jr. Officers found a dismantled gun hidden in the dashboard that was later matched to bullets recovered at the scene. Telemin was charged with murder; Hayes and Moore were initially charged with conspiracy to commit murder, later elevated to accessory to commit murder.

In October 2018 Moore pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter with a firearm and received a 20-year sentence. At the November 2021 trial of his co-defendants, Moore testified that he alone fired the shots that killed Gooden. A jury acquitted Telemin-Valerio and Hayes of murder and first-degree manslaughter but convicted both of criminal possession of a firearm.

Did anyone in Stamford at the time remember seeing or hearing anything at Lione Park that night?