Christopher John Flowers, 33, of Laurinburg, North Carolina, died from gunshot wounds sustained during a shooting on May 17, 2020. He was a passenger in a white Chrysler 300 struck multiple times at the intersection of Main Street and Church Street in Laurinburg. Flowers was taken to Scotland Memorial Hospital, later airlifted to another facility, and succumbed to his injuries; he was buried at Stewartsville Cemetery in Laurinburg and is survived by his parents, children and siblings.

Another occupant of the vehicle, 26-year-old Jerquarie Avery, was injured in the same incident and treated and released. Scotland County deputies tracked a suspect vehicle on U.S. Route 401; a high-speed pursuit followed and ended with the arrest of 28-year-old Webster Dionte Smith. Smith was charged with murder, two counts of attempted murder, discharging a weapon into an occupied moving vehicle, and discharging a firearm in the city limits; he was jailed without bond and investigators said additional suspects and charges are possible.

Flowers had multiple prior arrests, including a 2017 charge for the murder of Carlos McKay at Reflexxions Club in Hamer, South Carolina, and other charges such as possession of a stolen firearm, carrying concealed, larceny, breaking and entering a motor vehicle, probation violations and possession of drug paraphernalia. Does anyone have information about the shooting or knew Flowers that could help clarify what happened that night?