Prince George's County police are investigating whether the fatal shooting and stabbing of a woman and a man inside a Clinton, Maryland, home was done in self-defense.
Monique Duncan and Maurice Moore, both 42 years old, were found dead at the house in the 2500 block of Lazy Acres Drive about 6 a.m. on New Year's Day, police said. The pair both lived in the home and were in a relationship, police said.
Duncan died from gunshot wounds, and Moore died from a stab wound, police said Monday.
Two others, a juvenile and an adult, were also shot. Their injuries are not life-threatening, and they are still in a hospital, police said on Monday.
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News4 obtained video from a neighbor's doorbell camera that shows one of the victims knocking on the door trying to get help.
"It was blood on my doorbell. It was on the security door, and it was on the handle of the security door, but I wiped it off after I talked to other detectives and stuff," neighbor Phyllis Williams said.
Williams said she didn’t know the man, so she didn’t open the door. It wasn’t until later she learned two of her neighbors had died.
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"It left me, like, really baffled and I felt some kind of way. Like, you know, what if I had opened the door for this young man?" she said.
Detectives are, preliminarily, "looking into the possibility that this was a self-defense or defense of others case," police said.
The police department said it's working with the state's attorney's office to determine any possible charges.
"The female said that her boyfriend’s dad and mom were arguing, and she thought the mom got shot, and she’s in the basement with her newborn at the address on Lazy Acres," a dispatcher told officers after the shooting, according to dispatch audio obtained by News4.
Police have not said why they believe it could be self-defense.
"I just feel sad for the family, I do. I really feel sad for them," Williams said.
