Sharman Bowie, a 36-year-old Black/African American man, was found shot to death just after dawn on July 8, 2017, at the Westwood Apartments on Nandina Circle in southwest Little Rock. Officers were dispatched around 5:30 a.m. after a report of a struggle in a breezeway; when they arrived, Bowie lay on the ground with a fatal gunshot wound. The scene suggested a confrontation that spilled into the open-air corridor before ending in sudden, irreversible silence.
Early statements from police emphasized that the killing unfolded at the complex at 35 Nandina Circle, with no immediate indication of who fired the shot—or why.
In the hours and days that followed, detectives canvassed the area and appealed for tips, noting there was no information about the person responsible and, at the time, no suspects identified. The absence of arrests has lingered. Years later, the case remains listed among the Little Rock Police Department’s unsolved 2017 homicides, a stark entry marked by Bowie’s name, the date, and the address where he fell. Public records documenting the incident also place the killing at the Westwood Apartments, but offer little else beyond the coordinates of loss.
