This news article will explain some of the graphic history behind this crack house in Flint, Michigan. This pink house was the infamous crackhouse Lucille Bowie operated and owned prior to her death in 1991. Ronnie Johns killed Lucile Bowie and Demetrius Rawls in this crackhouse.
This pink house was built as a 2,745 square foot house with 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms on a 4,792 square foot lot. Dimensions of living space were 1,665 square feet. There were 8 rooms total. A 1,080 square foot basement was built underneath the house. The heating & cooling method used was forced air. Asbestos was used for installation inside the walls. A detached garage was located next to the house. That was what served as the carport.(Ref: https://www.redfin.com/MI/Flint/1316-N-Grand-Traverse-St-48503/home/111581751)
Clarence E. Woodbury was the first person known to have owned this pink house at 1322 North Grand Traverse Street. Clarence E. Woodbury married his wife Mary Ann Guest in 1920. (Ref: Flint Daily Journal, April 15, 1920, Page 7)
Clarence E. Woodbury willed this pink house to his wife, Mary Ann Guest, whom he had married earlier in 1920. She was a widow at that time. Mary Ann Guest (Mary Ann Woodbury) received and gained full ownership and property rights of this pink house in 1920. This included mineral rights. Mary Ann Guest lived at what was 1322 Grand Traverse from 1920 to 1922 with her husband Clarence E. Woodbury. (Ref: Genesee County Library of Wills, Doc #1388, Pages 32 & 33)
Lucille Bowie purchased this pink house from Mary Ann Woodbury et al. sometime during the 20th century. However the specific date is unknown. Now what is known that Lucille Bowie was renting out her residence at 1322 North Grand Traverse Street near 11th Street to big time drug dealers in 1990 and in 1991. 38 year-old Lucille Bowie operated and owned a thriving neighborhood dope house. She herself was a crackhead. James “Little Bo” Murphy and Donald “Juice” Williams were the big time drug dealers who rented from her. James “Little Bo” Murphy used to run her dope house too. That is how Lucille Bowie turned the house at 1322 North Grand Traverse Street into a pink crack house.
This pink house was located in 5th Ward/King Hood which is GD territory. GD territory is run by the Gangsta Disciples/Growth And Development gang. James “Little Bo” Murphy, Ronnie Johns, and Idell Cleveland were GDs.
In the month of August 1991 during the darkened pitch black Flint nighttime, Lucile Bowie and 14 year-old Demetrius Rawls had been shot and killed by Ronnie Johns. Lucille Bowie and Demetrius Rawls were the individuals present at the residence. Ronnie Johns had approached the two in pretense to buy crack cocaine. After that, Ronnie Johns had suddenly took out a stolen .44 caliber Ruger Redhawk (from a person’s house which he burglarized earlier) and demanded money. Both of them handed over everything they had without any resistance but that didn’t convince Ronnie Johns not to shoot them. Both died at the scene. This event was a double-homicide to another drug-related homicide from earlier that same year.
Lt. Robert McFadden said he identified a victim as Lucille Bowie. She had been evicted from the apartment earlier this week because of suspected drug activity. (Ref: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/100403488/)
Lucille Bowie's infant son at the time, Delanio Bowie, ended getting wounded in the leg from a stray bullet after a gunshot was fired. (Ref: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/205103653/)
“Bowie's son, a 12-to-14-month-old Delanio Bowie, was wounded in the leg and in serious condition Friday afternoon at Hurley Medical Center, McFadden said.”
After that, Ronnie Johns supposedly “shot a sleeping 18 month-old baby in the buttocks” in the same house. Yet somehow the infant survived. This infant was the child of Lucille Bowie. The victims were found about 4:20 AM by a neighbor who heard the baby crying. The baby was wounded in the leg and in serious condition. This particular homicide incident had made the morning headline news on the Flint Journal newspaper. This event led Ronnie Johns to be known as “Ronnie Johns the .44 caliber killer”! (Ref: Battle Creek Enquirer, Page 5, Saturday, August 10, 1991)
It didn’t take long for the police to track and locate Ronnie Johns and his accomplices. Someone tipped by phone to the Flint Police Department about the gun used in the Grand Traverse double-homicide to the drug-related homicide as well was previous crimes committed. Ronnie Johns made the national headline news after killing 8 people on a murder spree in Flint, Michigan in 1991. Ronnie Johns made national headline news on television and newspapers again that same year after being apprehended and arrested by Flint Police Department. He was arrested again in 1992. (Ref: https://murderpedia.org/male.J/j/johns-ronnie.htm)
Genesee County Land Bank purchased the property from Lucille Bowie by eminent domain circa 2010. Genesee County Land Bank had demolished the pink crack house in 2011. Today the property is vacant land owned by Genesee County Land Bank.
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The pink crack house was located at 1322 North Grand Traverse, Flint, Michigan, US 48503.
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