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A Lexington neighborhood lost a pregnant young woman to a stray bullet in the early evening of a September day. Twenty-two-year-old Maryiah (also spelled Mariyah in some reports) Coleman was walking her dog on Winburn Drive when a single shot struck her. She was eight months pregnant; the bullet also killed her unborn son, Jakobe, whom she had just seen on an ultrasound earlier that day.

Police say investigators worked the case for months, using interviews, door-to-door canvassing and technology, and received cooperation from people in the Winburn Drive community. Several months after the shooting, three men — each 20 at the time of the indictment, identified as Demetrioun L. Boaz, Joseph Jodie Fain, and Saquan Freeman — were charged with murder, fetal homicide and robbery. Authorities say the men had gone to the street intending to rob an acquaintance, shots were fired when that person ran, and one bullet hit Maryiah; it was not disclosed which man fired the fatal shot. Police were also investigating possible involvement by a fourth person.

Did anyone in the Winburn Drive area notice suspicious activity or know the victim and the people who were charged?