Little Rock police charged Braxton Flowers with capital murder and first-degree murder in the Circle K shooting that killed two people.

The file now has two murder counts against a man who was also shot, and a not-guilty plea from the twin a detective's letter places in the doorway with a gun. That letter is the state's account of who fired. It does not say which bullet killed Parker and which killed Ladontae Wilburn, and it does not tie the capital count to one death and the first-degree count to the other. No bail is where Flowers sits. It is not a finding that the letter is true.

Braxton Flowers, 25, of Little Rock, has been charged with capital murder and first-degree murder in the Oct. 15, 2026, shooting at the Circle K at 6201 Colonel Glenn Road, KATV, THV11, and KARK reported. KATV and KARK said police took him into custody without incident after he had been hospitalized for a gunshot wound. The City of Little Rock's earlier release said charges against him were still pending and that a file review would be done on Tedarien Mitchell. The later announcements are the charges.

The city said Southwest Patrol officers were sent at 5:18 p.m. and found several people shot inside and outside the store. James Parker, 74, was dead inside from apparent gunshot wounds. MEMS took Tamayra Woods, 22, Kemo Jones, 25, Flowers, and Tedarien Mitchell, 22, to hospitals in critical condition. Ladontae Wilburn, 19, was taken to a hospital and died a short time later. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, citing a probable-cause letter by Detective Chase Street, put the gunfire shortly before 5:15 p.m. and said at least four people fired during a dispute a witness described as being over a broken cellphone. THV11 described Parker as a University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff alumnus who was on his way to homecoming. The city said the case is in the Northwest Division and that the Pulaski County coroner sent both bodies to the Arkansas State Crime Lab.

Street's letter, as the Democrat-Gazette reported it, says surveillance showed Ladontae Wilburn walk in holding a handgun with a drum magazine. Flowers, Parker, Mitchell, Woods, Jones, and Kelvion Trammell were near the front register. The letter says Flowers pointed a gun at Ladontae and the two shot at each other, that Mitchell also fired, and that the video shows Parker clutch his chest and fall. It says Kavontae Wilburn was in the doorway and fired toward Flowers, Mitchell, and Woods, that Woods ran and collapsed, and that Flowers, Mitchell, and Jones went to the back of the store. Those are the detective's conclusions from the video. They are not a finding about whose bullet struck whom.

The same letter says Kavontae Wilburn told detectives he saw a man he thought was shooting at his brother, that he thought his brother was armed but was not sure, and that he first avoided the question of whether he himself was armed before saying he fired. He then asked for a lawyer, and the interview stopped. Trammell, the letter says, told detectives the fight started over a phone that someone associated with Mitchell had run over. Trammell said he left when the shooting started, saw Ladontae on the ground outside, and that he and Kavontae drove Ladontae to UAMS Medical Center, where Ladontae died.

Kavontae Wilburn pleaded not guilty Friday in Little Rock District Court to two counts of capital murder and to violating the Uniform Machine Gun Act, the Democrat-Gazette reported. Court records, the paper said, accuse him of using a machine gun for an offensive or aggressive purpose. The city's first release had described a single capital-murder charge. THV11 spelled his name Kevontae and also described one capital-murder count. The Democrat-Gazette and the city release use Kavontae. Flowers was in the Pulaski County jail Saturday with no bail set, the Democrat-Gazette reported. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.