Carl Tur, a 51-year-old White/Caucasian male, was killed on the morning of August 16, 2019, in a north Phoenix neighborhood near 35th Avenue and Beardsley Road. Online homicide and memorial databases list him as a Phoenix resident whose death was classified as a killing “by force,” and tie his case to a series of local news reports about a fatal shooting in that area on that date.
According to Phoenix police, officers were called around 6:30 a.m.
after reports of gunfire in a wash area near a church just off 35th Avenue and Beardsley. When they arrived, they found an adult man in the wash who had been shot; he was pronounced dead at the scene from a gunshot wound. The incident location and timing, as well as the description of the victim as an adult male killed in that wash, match the date and place where online memorial records say Tur lost his life.
Local coverage indicates that the shooting followed a confrontation between two men. Police told reporters that a fight broke out between the pair before shots were fired, and that one man was killed while the other was taken into custody at the scene. Another outlet summarized the case under the headline “Suspect kills man after pepper spray was used on him in Phoenix,” indicating that pepper spray had been deployed against the suspect shortly before the shooting, though the detailed sequence of events and who initiated the conflict are not laid out in the publicly accessible text.
News reports from the day of the incident state that police had a suspect in custody but did not immediately release that person’s identity, and no widely available follow-up coverage details what charges were ultimately filed or the final outcome of the case. In other words, online sources confirm that an alleged shooter was detained at the time of the homicide but do not provide further public information about later arrests, prosecution, or conviction beyond that initial custody.
On the memorial page associated with his case, Tur is remembered in brief comments from those who knew him as a quiet, caring man who did not deserve what happened to him, reinforcing that this was experienced by his community as a sudden, senseless act of violence rather than an anonymous crime. Those remembrances, together with the sparse but consistent news accounts, are all that is currently available online to illuminate the circumstances of his death and the limited information released about the suspect held by police that morning.
