On the afternoon of September 4, 2022, gunfire tore through a duplex in Saint Paul’s Payne-Phalen neighborhood. Police responding about 4:30 p.m. found a complex crime scene: three people dead inside the home, including 44-year-old Maisha M. Spaulding, and two people outside with multiple gunshot wounds; two others were injured. The two other homicide victims were identified as 42-year-old Cory Freeman and 33-year-old Angelica Gonzales. Investigators said the shooting was not considered domestic-related.

Authorities arrested 41-year-old Antonio D. Wright, known also as Figg or D, after a witness who survived described a masked man arriving on a black motorbike and opening fire. Wright was charged with three counts of second-degree murder and three counts of second-degree attempted murder, but a judge later found him not guilty when evidence, including an alibi and the witness’s changed identification, failed to prove him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. The deaths of Maisha Spaulding, Cory Freeman and Angelica Gonzales remain without a legally established perpetrator.

If anyone knew Maisha, her movements that day, or has information about the shooting, please come forward.