Ray Dukes, a 30-year-old African American father of four, was shot and killed on August 17, 2019, at the Normandy Apartments in Jacksonville, Florida. Residents and Jacksonville Fire-Rescue took him to a hospital, where he died of his wounds. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office opened a homicide investigation, and detectives and crime-scene personnel searched for witnesses, evidence and security footage; no arrest was reported in the immediate aftermath.

Dukes was known locally as a standout football player at Raines High School and Edward Waters College. He had survived at least one prior shooting in December 2017 when he was shot in the chest, and in July 2019 shots were fired at him and an acquaintance, the acquaintance dying in that incident. Dukes had told people close to him that he feared he was being targeted; it is not clear whether the earlier shootings were related to his death.

Anyone with information about Ray Dukes or the events at Normandy Apartments on August 17, 2019, is asked to come forward.