Two dead, two shot during domestic disturbance at home in Clinton

Jeff Jones

CLINTON, MD – A domestic disturbance inside a Clinton home left two people dead, and two others shot, including a child.

According to the Prince George’s County Police Department’s Homicide Unit, two adults in the home suffered fatal injuries. They werere identified as 42-year-old Monique Duncan and 42-year-old Maurice Moore.

Police said both decedents lived in the home and were in a relationship. When officers arrived at the scene, they found the couple dead and two others suffering from gunshot wounds.


On New Year’s Day, at approximately 6:00 am, officers responded to the home in the 2500 block of Lazy Acres Road. Duncan and Moore were pronounced deceased on the scene.

“The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner determined Duncan died from gunshot wounds. Moore died from a stab wound,” investigators revealed on Tuesday. “Two other individuals, one juvenile and one adult suffered what appear to be non-life-threatening gunshot wounds. They both remain hospitalized and are in stable condition.”

Police say they have identified all of the individuals who were home at the time. They are known to each other. Detectives are now working to determine the circumstances of this incident which was isolated to the home.

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