Kenneth Big Tom Flowers - in April, we reported that he had been killed in Utah - shot to death. That was what his family told us directly. The story was always a little shaky because no one knew precisely under what circumstances he was killed - and his family didn't know where his body was.
But based on what they told us - we ran the story and so did every other media house - after all - he was one of the most notorious names on the streets of Belize City - and to hear of his death was stunning news.
But we were wrong; he's not dead; and tonight he's on his way to notoriety in Salt Lake City, Utah where he is accused of killing a man in a drug deal gone bad.
33 year old Flowers has been charged with murder and possession of a firearm by a restricted person.
Here's the story: Salt Lake City Police say that on Saturday, December 18, Big Tom shot and killed a man named Cisco Cross, with a .22 pistol to the chest in a high rise apartment building.
In a "warrant arrest fact sheet" Big Tom confessed to police that he Cross pulled up his shirt and displayed a weapon and Big Tom concluded that Cross "had set him up and the people were going to kill him."
In that same fact sheet, Big Tom also told police that he was at a friend's apartment smoking crack and that he had been smoking, quote, " a lot of crack in the last 24 hours."
Tonight, Big Tom is being held in the Salt Lake County Jail on $1 million dollar bail.
Authorities there say, Flowers has been deported to Belize twice.
Today his family in Belize City refused comment. Big Tom rose to prominence in the Belize City gang scene in the late 90's and early oughts when he was considered the boss of Bak-A-Town - and was regarded to be a much feared assassin.
In 2002, he was charged for the murder of William Carl Osmond - but was never convicted.
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