André Malik Dukes, a 29-year-old Black/African American man from Parkville, Maryland, was killed in a double shooting in northeast Baltimore on the night of September 17, 2024. Baltimore Police Department officers were called to the 7200 block of McClean Boulevard at approximately 9:32 p.m. after receiving a report of gunfire. When officers reached the scene, they found two men who had been struck by numerous bullets.
Dukes was unresponsive when police and emergency medical personnel
arrived. Medics determined that he had died at the scene. The second man was still alive and was transported to an area hospital for treatment of his gunshot wounds. Publicly released information did not identify the surviving victim or provide a detailed account of his condition following hospitalization.
In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, police had not yet publicly identified the man who died. Investigators later confirmed the fatal victim as Andre Dukes, while other records identify his full name as André Malik Dukes. His death was subsequently included among Baltimore's September 2024 homicide victims, with law-enforcement and news records consistently placing the fatal shooting in the 7200 block of McClean Boulevard on September 17.
Homicide detectives responded to the scene and took control of the investigation. The initial police account did not describe what happened immediately before the gunfire, whether the victims were together when they were confronted, how many shooters may have been involved, or whether anyone was seen fleeing the area. Authorities also did not publicly disclose a motive or indicate whether the shooting arose from a robbery, dispute, targeted attack, or some other circumstance.
Investigators appealed to the public for information that could help identify whoever was responsible. Baltimore homicide detectives directed anyone with information to contact the department's homicide unit, while people wishing to remain anonymous were encouraged to provide information through Metro Crime Stoppers. The public appeal reflected the limited information available to detectives in the immediate aftermath of the shooting and the need for witnesses or others with knowledge of the incident to come forward.
Available online reporting does not identify a suspect in Dukes' killing, and no publicly reported arrest, criminal charge, prosecution, trial, guilty plea, or conviction connected to his death was located. Later Baltimore homicide tracking information continued to list Dukes as the victim of the September 17 McClean Boulevard double shooting without reporting a person charged in the case. As a result, the publicly available record leaves unanswered who opened fire on Dukes and the second victim, what led to the attack, and whether investigators have developed a suspect who has not been publicly named.
Dukes' killing occurred during an especially violent evening in Baltimore. Several other shootings were reported across the city on September 17, including another fatal shooting earlier that afternoon. The McClean Boulevard attack, however, remained a separate Northeast District homicide investigation centered on the two men found riddled with gunshot wounds shortly after 9:30 that night. For Dukes, the encounter ended at the scene before he could be transported for treatment, while the other wounded man survived long enough to be taken to a hospital.
More than the basic circumstances of the shooting have remained largely outside the public record. No official account located online provides a detailed sequence of events, identifies a weapon recovered from the scene, names witnesses, describes surveillance evidence, or explains why Dukes was at that location that evening. What is established publicly is that the gunfire left him dead, another man wounded, and Baltimore homicide detectives searching for information capable of identifying the person or people responsible.
