On October 7, 2020, in Holbrook, Arizona, Clyde Dale Clark, a 60-year-old Black / African American male, died as the result of gun violence that local authorities classified as a suspected homicide. Public records about the exact timing of his death are not entirely consistent: his funeral-home obituary lists his passing as occurring on October 2, 2020, while gun-violence memorial and tracking sites record that he was lost to gun violence on October 7 and connect that date to the
law-enforcement investigation into his killing in Holbrook. Taken together, these sources place his death in the first week of October 2020 and link it specifically to a fatal shooting that drew a homicide investigation by local police.
Clark’s background is documented mainly through obituary and memorial records. He was born on November 28, 1959, in Holbrook to Ella Mae Garrett Clark and Curtis Clark Jr., and he spent most of his life in that same community, with a period of years living in Glendale, Arizona. Those who knew him remembered him as a familiar, friendly presence in Holbrook, someone described as helpful, deeply religious, and committed to his church. He was an active member of St. John’s Missionary Baptist Church and was noted for sharing the Gospel with others. Obituary notices describe him as a “jack of all trades” who could fix nearly anything, and they emphasize his strong family ties, listing his mother, numerous siblings, and many nieces and nephews among his survivors. His graveside service was held on October 17, 2020, at Holbrook Cemetery, where he is buried.
The circumstances of his death, as reflected in available public sources, center on his being fatally shot in Holbrook in early October 2020. Gun-violence documentation sites list a single fatality in a Holbrook shooting on October 2, 2020, and memorial pages explicitly state that Clark was “lost to gun violence” in Holbrook and cite a local news article titled “Police investigate suspected homicide” as the primary news coverage of the case. These references indicate that police opened a suspected-homicide investigation into his shooting, treating his death not as an accident or self-inflicted injury but as a criminal act. However, the accessible summaries do not provide further specifics, such as the exact location within the city, the time of day, or detailed narrative of the incident.
As for arrests or suspects, the public record remains sparse. The case appears on a site that tracks unsolved homicides and other “death by force” cases in Arizona, where it is presented as an open case with a request for any updates from the public and no mention of a named suspect or charges being filed. That site’s listing, last updated in 2025, still categorizes the matter as a death by force and suspected homicide without indicating that the investigation has been resolved. There are no publicly available follow-up articles or official announcements indicating that a suspect was identified, arrested, or prosecuted in connection with Clark’s killing. Based on what is currently documented online, his death remains an unresolved suspected homicide, and no suspect or suspects have been publicly named or reported as having been taken into custody.
