
Stafon Edward Thompson and Brian Lee Flowers
Minneapolis, MN – Katricia Daniels and her little boy, Robert Shephard, were just hanging out at home last Wednesday night. Katricia’s boyfriend Joseph Williams was working an overnight shift, leaving Daniels, 36, at home with her ten year old son. By Thursday morning, they were dead. Now Stafon Edward Thompson, 17, and Brian Lee Flowers, 16, have been arrested in their murders.
Brian Flowers told police that Thompson killed Katricia Daniels with a knife and a golf club “because he wanted her car”. Flowers also told investigators that Thompson killed Robert Shephard by smashing a TV set over the child’s head. The medical examiner’s report states that Katricia Daniels was stabbed and cut over a hundred times.
Of course, Stafon Thompson’s story is a little different. He says that Brian Flowers killed Daniels as part of a robbery – an interesting story, but it doesn’t really wash since the only thing actually taken was Daniels’ cell phone. Thompson also said that Flowers wanted ten-year-old Robert killed because he was a witness. However, Katricia Daniels’ one year old daughter was left bloodied, but alive.
It hardly matters who did the killing – the fact is, both boys were in the home when Katricia Daniels and her child were killed. Bloody spatter and handprints were all over the home Thursday morning when Joseph Williams came home from work. He found his girlfriend dead in the bathroom, while Robert was killed in a bedroom.
The motive clearly wasn’t robbery, and it doesn’t appear that Daniels or her children were sexually assaulted. So what the hell happened?
Katricia Daniels has a fifteen year old son who lives in Chicago, and the suspects knew Daniels through that son. Some family and friends believe the murders may have been gang-related, but that doesn’t explain the extreme violence and gore of the killings. Right now, there doesn’t seem to be a clear-cut motive for Thompson and Flowers to have killed a woman who they called “Mom”. There’s even less motive for the killing of an innocent young boy in his own bedroom.
Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman told the press, “We don’t know why this murder was committed and we may never know why. The level of violence associated with this crime is difficult to comprehend and difficult to imagine,” Freeman said.
Stafon Edward Thompson and Brian Lee Flowers have each been each charged as adults with four counts of first-degree murder. They are being held in the Hennepin County Jail on one million dollars bond apiece. If convicted, the boys face life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Robert Shephard and Katricia Daniels, victims
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