Salt Lake murder suspect a familiar face in Belize | The Salt Lake Tribune

Salt Lake murder suspect a familiar face in Belize | The Salt Lake Tribune: "Jules Vasquez recognized the man in the photograph right away.

'It’s Big Tom,' he said. 'Absolutely, 100 percent.'

Kenneth Lewellyn Flowers, 33, sits in Salt Lake County Jail, charged with shooting and killing a man in a Main Street apartment on Dec. 18.

Prosecutors have also charged him with being a restricted person in possession of a firearm, because he was twice been deported to Belize.

That’s how Vasquez, a reporter in Belize City, recognized him. For the better part of a decade, Kenneth 'Big Tom' Flowers was known as an enforcer for a once-prominent Belizean street gang — a usual suspect for police officers, someone who knew about life on both sides of the gun.

'He was notorious,' said Vasquez, who has covered the city’s gang problems for 7 News in Belize. 'I knew him as a hitman. He was a gun for hire.'

In 2002, Flowers was shot in the chest but refused to cooperate with police in an investigation, according to Belizean media reports. He was charged with shooting and killing a man in front of a mechanic’s shop just two days later, though he was never convicted on the charge."

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