Amandala has confirmed that former enforcer in the “Back-A-Town” gang, Kenneth “Big Tom” Flowers, 32, was shot dead earlier this week in the state of Utah in the United States of America.
Flowers’ family in Belize confirmed that he was shot once in the head sometime on Monday, April 19. The motive is not known, and no arrests have been made. The reported death has not yet made it onto any news sites in the United States, and when we visited the family residence today, they told us they had heard nothing more to date.
Funeral arrangements are yet to be finalized, according to the family.
Flowers, a source close to the situation told us today, had moved to the United States nearly two years ago in an attempt to change his life and get away from his past reputation.
Between 2002 and 2007, he was accused of the murder of William Osmond, 36, on Mahogany Street, in 2002, and was himself shot at twice in 2002 and in 2006, along with James Young, Sr., in the Belama housing division of Belize City, after a truce had been brokered between Back-A-Town and their rivals on George Street.
Brian Brown and the late Alpheus Smith were charged for the 2006 incident, but in June of 2007, Smith was himself shot dead on Curassow Street. Brothers Lynton and Jody Gentle are slated to stand trial for that murder.
“Big Tom” is survived by six sisters and one brother.