Kim Gooden, 51, was found dead inside her Southern Avenue apartment in Capitol Heights, Maryland, during a welfare check on August 14, 2020. Officers discovered Gooden on the floor with multiple gunshot wounds; she was pronounced dead at the scene. Detectives established she had been shot in the early morning hours of August 12. A witness heard loud pops around 2:20 a.m. and saw a man run from the apartment, and surveillance footage showed a person fleeing the area in Gooden’s car shortly afterward.

Investigators identified 50-year-old Kenneth Duane Sedgwick as the primary suspect; he was arrested in Washington, D.C., and charged with first- and second-degree murder plus related assault counts. Authorities described the killing as domestic-related and arranged to extradite Sedgwick to Prince George’s County to face the charges.

If anyone has information about Gooden, her movements in early August 2020, or the events around Southern Avenue that night, please come forward.