Funeral services set for slain BHS grad

BANGOR – Funeral services for a Bangor High School graduate who was murdered last week in Virginia are to be held Saturday at All Souls Congregational Church.

Jane Mosher-Buyno, 25, was shot and killed Thursday at her home in Manassas Park, Va., Capt. Travis Mosher of the Manassas Park Police Department said Monday. He is not related to the victim.

Police were called about 2 p.m. to the town house Mosher-Buyno shared with Jacquinda P. Hampton, 26, and the victim’s 3-year-old daughter, Serenity, in the Washington, D.C., suburb of about 15,000.

The child was at home at the time of the shooting but was uninjured and is staying with Mosher-Buyno’s mother, Nancy McAlley of Brewster, N.Y., according to police.

Hampton, who has been charged with murder and the use of a firearm in a felony, is being held without bail at the Adult Detention Center.

Police in Virginia are treating the crime as a domestic homicide.

Detectives still are investigating what might have led to the shooting, Travis Mosher said Monday. The couple had had no history of domestic violence since moving to the area about a year ago, he said.

In his experience, Travis Mosher added, the rate of domestic violence among same-sex couples is similar to the rate of violence in heterosexual couples.

Francine Stark of Spruce Run, a domestic violence shelter in Bangor, agreed. She cited a well-known 1992 study of lesbian couples that supported the police official.

Mosher-Buyno grew up in Holden and was graduated from Bangor High School in 1999 after attending John Bapst Memorial High School. Officials at both schools said Monday that she did not attend either long enough for staff to know her well.

She is described in an obituary to be published later this week as a person who enjoyed “her family, the ocean, animals, skiing and camping.” Her goal, according to the obituary, was to be a kindergarten teacher.

Mosher-Buyno is survived by her mother; father, Raymond Buyno of Glenburn; sister, Jodie Mosher-Buyno; brother, Drew Mosher-Buyno; and other relatives.