On the morning of October 26, 2021, Prince George’s County investigators responded to a reported shooting at an apartment on Rochell Avenue in District Heights and found two men dead inside. Forty-three-year-old Willie Cheeks and 40-year-old Marquise Porter had both been shot; authorities pronounced them dead at the scene after arriving around 9:25 a.m. The Homicide Unit classified the event as a double homicide and said the incident did not appear to be random, indicating the victims may have been targeted.

Willie Cheeks, known to some as 10 Duke or Big Duke, was a father of four who worked as a line cook and grill master at Reagan National Airport. Both he and Porter lived in the apartment where they were killed. The case was assigned number 21-0049351 and detectives began work to establish a motive and timeline. No suspects or arrests have been publicly identified.

Did anyone in the area know Cheeks or Porter, or see anything unusual at the Rochell Avenue building that morning?