Teron William Flowers, a Black/African American man from Detroit, Michigan, was killed on December 15, 2021, in a burst of violence that turned an ordinary evening errand into a running fight for survival.
That night, a confrontation at a nearby liquor store around Saint Aubin and Larned spilled out into the surrounding neighborhood. Witnesses described chaos spreading from the store into the streets, with people scattering as the dispute escalated beyond words.
As the danger closed in, Flowers and his longtime friend Marquese Smith tried to get away on foot. Investigators later said the two had gotten into an altercation with another group of men, and the pursuit that followed ended at the Martin Luther King Jr. apartment complex, where multiple shooters were positioned as if waiting for them. The attack unfolded near Saint Aubin and Larned, and police have said there were many people nearby when the gunfire erupted—yet the silence afterward has been just as loud as the shots themselves.
One account described a white Dodge Charger following them from the area of Chene and Larned, the car slowing as the threat became unmistakable. Flowers ran, but gunfire chased him through the complex. He was struck and managed to make it to the intersection just past the King Homes before collapsing, mortally wounded.
In the years since, the case has remained open with no publicly announced arrests or named suspects. Police and Crime Stoppers have repeatedly returned to the same urgent appeal: someone saw what happened, someone knows who was in that car or who lay in wait, and someone is holding back out of fear.
A reward was offered to shake loose that missing piece—$4,000 for information leading to an arrest—yet the gunmen have not been brought to court, and the story still ends where it began: at a street corner and a housing complex on Detroit’s east side, with unanswered questions hanging in the cold air.
