History of the pink crack house in Flint, Michigan explained. The house at 1322 North Grand Traverse Street. History debunked.
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 somewhere around 1887. 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)
Mary Ann Woodbury et al. sold the house to Joann Cager around 1965. She own and live intros house until 1985. The pink crack house was sold to Lucille Bowie around 1990 or 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. (Ref: https://www.truepeoplesearch.com/find/address/1322-n-grand-traverse-st_flint-mi-48503)
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. (Ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zG-tyP6zOk)
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, Abron Shakir, and Idell Cleveland were GDs.
In May of 1991, the dope-dealing teenager Ronnie Johns got ahold of a stolen gun which was a powerful and fearsome looking .44-caliber Ruger Redhawk revolver with maple wood grips and a scope. Over the next 4 months, 8 people in Flint were shot with the weapon he used. 4 people were killed with the weapon he used which included Lucille Bowie and Demetrius Rawls. (Ref: Flint Journal, The One-Fifty at a glance, September 18, 2005)
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. Abron Shakir, Idell Cleveland, James “Little Bo” Murphy, and 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 Lucile Bowie and Demetrius Rawls 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 that week because of suspected drug activity. (Ref: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/100403488/)
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)
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.”
Delanio Bowie ended up staying in a body cast for about over a year until his relatives got him discharged from Hurley Medical Center in 1993. He stayed in the crack house until he was moved into a relatives home in June 1993 by one of his family members. (Ref: https://www.truepeoplesearch.com/find/person/p64lr82nr88960ln2628)
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. (Ref: https://murderpedia.org/male.J/j/johns-ronnie.htm)
He was arrested again in 1992. October 22, 1992 was when Ronnie Johns was convicted of two murder counts and other charges and sentenced to life without parole by Genesee Circuit Judge Thomas C. Yeoti. (Ref: Flint Journal, The One-Fifty at a glance, September 18, 2005)
Longtime Flint Journal crime reporter and feature writer Kim Crawford wrote an account of ".44-caliber killer" Ronnie Johns in 1992. Longtime Flint Journal crime reporter and feature writer Kim Crawford says the bad guys here don't tend to leave lasting impressions. They're here and gone, their legacies wiped out by the next wave of criminals. (Ref: Flint Journal, The One-Fifty at a glance, September 18, 2005)
Her house was acquired by the City of Flint in or around August 1991. Richard C Arrington purchased the house from the City of Flint sometime in 1992. Richard C Arrington would live in this house until June 2001 when he moved out and bought a house elsewhere in Flint. (Ref: https://www.truepeoplesearch.com/find/person/p2r0r8898luunn29r68n)
Richard C Arrington was sold this house to M A Roberson in July 2001. M A Roberson abandoned this house prior to 2008 sometime during the 21st century. Exactly when is unknown. But this house was already abandoned by 2008 as plywood was put across windows and doors preventing unlawful entry. (Ref: https://www.truepeoplesearch.com/find/person/pxrn692l89nu2l0lu646)
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.
(Ref: https://bsaonline.com/SiteSearch/SiteSearchDetails?SearchFocus=All+Records&SearchCategory=Address&SearchText=1316+Grand+Traverse&uid=1158&PageIndex=1&ReferenceKey=40-12-183-005&ReferenceType=0&SortBy=&SearchOrigin=0&RecordKeyDisplayString=40-12-183-005&RecordKey=40-12-183-005&RecordKeyType=0)
The pink crack house was located at 1322 North Grand Traverse, Flint, Michigan, US 48503.
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