Sharman Bowie was 36 when he was found shot to death just after dawn on July 8, 2017, at the Westwood Apartments on Nandina Circle in southwest Little Rock. Officers were dispatched about 5:30 a.m. after a report of a struggle in a breezeway; when they arrived Bowie was on the ground with a fatal gunshot wound. The scene suggested a confrontation that moved into the open-air corridor before it ended.

Early police statements gave the address as 35 Nandina Circle and said there was no immediate indication of who fired the shot or why. Detectives canvassed the area and appealed for tips; no suspects were identified in the hours and days after the killing. The case remains listed among the Little Rock Police Department’s unsolved 2017 homicides with little public information beyond the location and the date.

If anyone knew Sharman Bowie or has information about what happened at the Westwood Apartments that morning, please come forward.