Dion Jamel Flowers Jr., 29, of Michigan, United States has been arrested. He was wanted for multiple felonies.
The midnight ambush
The investigation stems from a violent incident on May 16, 2025 in the 100 block of Lincoln Street in Jackson, Jackson County, Michigan. According to the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office, a group of friends and family had gathered on a residential porch just after midnight when three individuals approached on foot and opened fire.
The barrage of bullets struck four men namely Kenneth Avant, 63, Anthony Owens, 45, Randall Hurst, 44, and Michael Gant, 42. While all victims were rushed to Henry Ford Allegiance Hospital in Jackson, Owens succumbed to his injuries in the early hours of May 17, 2025. The suspects fled the scene before law enforcement arrived, sparking an intensive, multi-state investigation.
Tracking the suspects
Charges were formally filed in late December 2025 after months of forensic work and interviews. The three men identified in the attack namely Flowers, Tyrek Tra-Quan Jabrie Rice, 28, and Montez Martees White, 27, each faced a litany of charges, including one count of open murder, felony firearm possession and multiple counts of assault with intent to murder.
Rice and Flowers faced additional charges for being prohibited persons in possession of a firearm. The former was the first to be captured, located in Ohio, USA shortly after the charges were made public and the latter was also apprehended by U.S. Marshals in the same state earlier this year.
The final arrest
The search for Flowers led investigators to West Virginia, USA after receiving tips that he had fled to the Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia area. The U.S. Marshals Service Mountain State Fugitive Task Force spearheaded the effort, tracking Flowers’ associates to a residence on Northwest Drive in Morgantown.
Given Flowers’ history and the violent nature of the charges, the West Virginia State Police Special Response Team (SRT) was called in to execute the high-risk arrest. At approximately 7:20 a.m. on March 2, 2026, authorities breached the residence and took him into custody without incident. The operation involved a massive collaborative effort between the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the Mon Metro Drug Task Force and the Monongalia County Sheriff’s Office.
Flowers is currently being held in Monongalia County as a fugitive from justice pending his extradition back to Michigan to face trial. While all three suspects are now in custody, officials have yet to release a definitive motive for the deadly porch shooting.
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