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"She didn't bother anybody," said Maxine Gooden's daughter Danielle. "She was always positive. She never argued with anybody. She was the best with everybody."
Danielle Gooden made her comments Tuesday in the same parking lot where she had seen her mother shot just after 10 p.m. Monday. Danielle, 22, one of Gooden's five children, was only a few feet away from her mother when the shooting occurred.
"She was standing right there. Everybody was having a good time," Danielle Gooden said, pointing to the area in the parking lot where they were gathered with friends. "All of the sudden, four bullets fly and one bullet hit her and she fell to the ground."
Danielle Gooden was standing only about a yard away from her mother when the shooting occurred. She didn't see the shooters.
Maxine Gooden was shot in the abdomen in front of a crowd of people gathered to enjoy a mild autumn night shortly after 10 p.m. At least one of the bullets struck a residence at 70 Merrell Ave., adjacent to Lione Park.
Stamford police said two men walked up to Gooden and shot her in what police believe was a targeted attack. The two men fled the scene by running up nearby Delaware Avenue, where a Jeep with a driver was waiting for them, police said. Two witnesses chased the suspects, got the Jeep's license plate number and called police.
Police Officer Nicole Petrenko spotted the vehicle, notified the dispatch center and followed it until other officers could arrive.
Within minutes, police had boxed in the Jeep on Strawberry Hill Avenue near the Tully Center and arrested the three men inside at gunpoint. Capt. Richard Conklin praised Petrenko for her actions.
Three arrests have been made: Jhonel Telemin, 21, was charged with first-degree murder, and Deshawn Hayes, 24, and Morris Joel Moore Jr., 23, were charged with conspiracy to murder, police said.
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