Andre Drummond, 48, was found stabbed to death inside a vacant home in the 500 block of East North Avenue in Baltimore. The Baltimore Sun's homicide database lists his death on Wednesday, March 23, 2011, and records it as a homicide. The Baltimore Police Department investigated.
The few details that have been made public come from the Sun. According to the newspaper's notes, Drummond's "body was found inside of a vacant home after police received an anonymous tip." A Sun article published a few days later reported that "Andre Drummond, 48, was found with stab wounds" in a vacant rowhouse. That same article was mainly about another stabbing victim, Reginald Wragg, whose body was found in an alley in the Barclay community only blocks away. Police later charged a woman in Wragg's death, and nothing in the saved reporting connected the two killings.
Beyond his name, his age and the block where he was found, almost nothing about Andre Drummond has been made public.
No obituary, memorial page or family fundraiser could be found for this story, and no news outlet appears to have reported on his life. He surely had family, friends or neighbors who remember who he was, but none of that has entered the public record. Searches for his name are also crowded with coverage of a well known professional basketball player who shares it, which may make it harder for anyone looking for this man's story to find it.
Because so little has been released, even the basic circumstances remain unknown to the public. The record does not say whether he was stabbed during a fight or a robbery, or by a stranger or by someone he knew. It does not say whether he was killed inside the vacant home or brought there, how long he had been there before the anonymous caller alerted police, or who that caller was. It does not say whether anyone saw what happened, or whether investigators ever identified a suspect.
The fact that police learned of his body through an anonymous tip suggests that at least one person knew where he was before officers did. That person, or someone they spoke to, may still hold information that could help detectives understand what happened inside that house.
North Avenue is one of Baltimore's main east-west corridors, running across the city from west to east. The stretch where Drummond was found sits a few blocks from the Barclay community, where Wragg's body was found the same week. The house where he was found was vacant, and his body may have gone unnoticed there for some time before the tip came in.
Baltimore recorded roughly 200 to 280 homicides a year between 2007 and 2014, one of the highest rates of any large American city, and many of those killings were never solved.
No arrest, criminal charge or court case connected to the death of Andre Drummond could be found in news archives or public records. More than 15 years later, there is no public sign that anyone has been held responsible. Anyone who lived near or spent time around the 500 block of East North Avenue in March 2011, or who knows who called police about the vacant house, may know something that matters. Even a small detail, such as a name overheard, a vehicle seen nearby or a conversation remembered, can help detectives move a case forward. Anyone with information can call Baltimore Police homicide detectives at 410-396-2100, or leave an anonymous tip with Metro Crime Stoppers of Maryland at 1-866-7LOCKUP (1-866-756-2587).
