David Flowers, a 23-year-old Black male from Philadelphia, was known to family and friends as “Day-Day.” On the night of Wednesday, August 26, 2009, Philadelphia police were called to the 200 block of North Simpson Street shortly before midnight. Inside the first-floor living room area of the home, officers found David lying on the floor with severe trauma to his head. Philadelphia Fire Department medics responded, but David did not survive.
One public homicide list records the assault date as August 26, 2009, and the date of death as August 27, 2009.
According to the family reflection published with his unsolved case entry, David had been beaten to death while he slept. The way his family described it gave the case a particularly painful weight: this was not portrayed as a sudden street confrontation or an exchange that spiraled out of control, but as a cowardly attack on a sleeping man. The reflection said that family and friends knew him as Day-Day and pleaded for information leading to the arrest of whoever was responsible, writing that 10 years was long enough to wait for justice.
David was listed as residing on Kershaw Street in Philadelphia, while the homicide location was recorded as the 200 block of North Simpson Street. The available public details do not identify a named suspect, motive, or clear sequence of events before the attack. What is known is that police found him inside the residence, in the living room area, suffering from head trauma, and that the case was classified as a murder.
No public source located reported an arrest, charges, trial, or conviction in David Flowers’s death. Philadelphia Police continue to list the case among unsolved murders and have asked anyone with information to contact the Homicide Unit or submit an anonymous tip. As of the available online information, the person or people responsible for beating David Flowers to death have not been publicly identified.
