Do you know who murdered Aaron Flowers in 2008? Aaron Sean Flowers, a 19-year-old Black/African American male, was killed on Friday evening, April 11, 2008, in Wilmington, Delaware. Although he was reported to have a last known address in Newark, his life ended on the steps of Domingo’s Market at North Harrison and Conrad streets, a corner store setting that turned into the scene of Wilmington’s ninth homicide of that year.
Police said Flowers had been shot several times.
At least one bullet struck him in the back of the head, and he was pronounced dead at the scene. The violence unfolded in a public place, close enough to the everyday movement of the neighborhood that children were nearby when it happened. Afterward, Wilmington police brought in members of the Child Development Community Policing program to speak with those children, a detail that shows how suddenly the shooting spilled fear and grief into the surrounding community.
In the days after his death, Aaron was remembered by his full name, Aaron Sean Flowers, and funeral services were arranged at New Destiny Fellowship Church on East 16th Street in Wilmington. His obituary described him as being of Newark and confirmed that he died on April 11, 2008, at age 19.
At the time his death was publicly identified, police said they had no suspects in the slaying. I found no online source showing that anyone was arrested, charged, tried, or convicted for Aaron Flowers’s killing. The available public reporting leaves the case as one where a young man was gunned down outside a market, investigators identified him quickly, but no suspect information was announced in the public accounts located.
