On a tragic spring evening in 2022, Johntavies Jauckquece Small, a 42-year-old male, found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. The night of Saturday, April 23rd, ended in a hail of gunfire in the parking lot of the Prime Eight Ten restaurant in Mt. Morris Township, a community near Flint, Michigan. Small, an unintended victim, was caught in the crossfire of a dispute that had reportedly begun inside the establishment.
The altercation, the details of which remain murky, spilled
out into the night, erupting into a violent shootout. When the chaos subsided, Johntavies Jauckquece Small and another man, 36-year-old Tony Lance Owens, lay mortally wounded. Investigators at the scene recovered a significant amount of evidence, with between 30 and 45 shell casings littering the pavement, a testament to the intensity of the violence that had unfolded.
In the immediate aftermath, law enforcement issued a call to the public for assistance in locating the individuals responsible for the double homicide. Witnesses reported that the suspects had fled the scene in a white Dodge Durango. The Mt. Morris Township police initiated an investigation, searching for leads and appealing for any information that could lead to the identification and apprehension of the shooters.
Despite the initial flurry of police activity and media reports, the trail of the suspects in the white Dodge Durango appears to have gone cold. Publicly available information and subsequent news reports have not provided any updates regarding arrests or the identification of any specific suspects in the case. The shooting deaths of Johntavies Jauckquece Small and Tony Lance Owens remain an unresolved tragedy, leaving a void in the lives of their families and a community still seeking answers and justice for the lives lost on that violent April night.
