GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – A Green Bay man is charged with allegedly running over a teenager with his car earlier this summer.
36-year-old Alonzo T. Flowers is charged with first-degree recklessly endangering safety and hit-and-run causing injury.
According to the criminal complaint, police in Green Bay were called to the 700 block of St. George Street on the evening of July 7 for a disturbance.
When officers arrived, one of the cops saw two females and two males in the street. One of the males had his, “shirt off and appeared to be holding his abdomen and shoulders and was walking with a limp.” That teen, the officer said, had what looked to be, “a very large abrasion on his shoulder, consistent with that of ‘road rash’.”
The females, at that point, was yelling at the officer that, “they had just drove over him!” The officer then contacted rescue to help the victim with his injuries.
The complaint states that this officer was told a group of males went to a house and started something with another group of males who had ties to a house across the street. Initially it began over some comments that had been made in the past between one of the males and one of the females that live at the house, including threats to slap the girl.
The mom of one of those girls came outside of the house to speak with the officer. She claimed that she was at a different location when she got a call from a friend who said her daughters were outside and it looked like they were going to get into an argument or fight with a group of black males.
When the mom got home, the complaint says, she saw approximately 10 to 12 black males fighting in the street. Two of them she recognized as her daughters’ boyfriends. She began yelling for them to stop fighting, when the males started yelling insults at her.
One of the males was allegedly on the ground, and another boy started to go over to him to pick him up. That’s when, according to the mom, “a burgundy four-door Cadillac came flying down the street and the vehicle pulled up onto the driveway, immediately turned back hard over the grass apron, went over the curb and hit the male lying on the ground.”
She claimed the car, “completely went over the victim, and then stopped. It backed up and over the curb again and then went forward again only partially going over the victim this time and dragging him down the street for a few feet.”
The teenage victim spoke with police three days after being hit by the car and said that he was feeling better with no broken bones or internal injuries.
The vehicle was last seen turning west on University Avenue. The mom told police that a male black was driving and there was a female black passenger with another black male in the back passenger seat.
Police were informed that the car had been located in the 700 block of N. Quincy Street near the Shelter Night Club. One cop who went to the scene found the car, “running, hood hot to the touch, gas at 90% tank left and mileage read at 191, 655 miles.” There were also scuff marks to the bumper, part of the driver side front tire skirting missing and a large dent to the driver side rear door preventing it from closing.
Another officer attempted to speak with a woman who called 911 to report the disturbance on St. George Street, but hung up. The cop found her and she explained that there, “have been ongoing disputes with her child and some of the other kids in the neighborhood and this has her very upset because the other juveniles had mentioned the use of firearms and she fears for her safety, as well as that of her children.”
The woman told police that she got a phone call from her son, claiming that, “some large males wanted to fight with him and asked his mother to come down there to him where he was visiting at his friend’s house.”
At that time, the woman was with her cousin, identified as Alonzo T. Flowers. They got into a maroon Cadillac and they went down there. She told police that this was the, “second or third time she would be intervening on behalf of her son to try and de-escalate the situation.”
The complaint states that when they arrived, the fight had broken out and it seemed, “like utter chaos as multiple parties were fighting with one another.” She claimed that Flowers was having trouble with the car.
Believing that Flowers was trying to, “put it into park as he pulled up quickly to the location,” the woman told police that he, “did run over a person and she felt that the person was trapped under the vehicle.” She began hitting Flowers, telling him to back up to get off the person. He then backed the car up and then the other males on scene began rushing at the vehicle.
Flowers sped away from the scene, she told police. They drove a short distance away and parked the car, with Flowers allegedly leaving on foot and she walked home.
Then on July 11, Alonzo Flowers turned himself in to his probation agent and was then taken to the Green Bay Police Department.
According to Flowers, he and his cousin had gone to St. George Street to speak to the parents of the children who had been fighting on Facebook with her son. He allegedly was, “in the process of purchasing the car from a man.” After meeting with the parents, his cousin got a call from her son, “who was hysterical.”
He allegedly told his mom, Flowers said, that a group had, “returned to the address to fight and had guns.” Flowers says they then returned to that address. The son was allegedly running toward their car, and another male, “had a pistol in his hand and was pointing it at the car,” and that the, “whole crowd was running toward me.”
Flowers told officers that he veered to the right, hoping to pick up the boy. He then, “turned left as he saw the gun and wanted to turn away. He stated he heard a thump and stopped.” The crowd then apparently started to hit the car and open his car door. Flowers then said he drove off to Monroe and University.
Police were told by Flowers that it was not his intention to hit anyone with the car. He said, “When he heard the thump, he knew he hit something but didn’t know what it was.”
Alonzo Flowers returns to Brown County court for a plea/sentencing hearing on September 22. If convicted of both charges, Flowers faces more than 13 years in prison.
