Clyde Dale Clark, a 60-year-old Black/African American man from Holbrook, Arizona, died after an incident of gun violence that local authorities treated as a suspected homicide in early October 2020. Online memorials and case-tracking sites describe him as “lost to gun violence” in Holbrook and classify his death as “death by force,” reflecting that investigators did not regard his passing as natural or accidental.
Public records are not fully consistent about the exact date of his death. His funeral-home obituary and related memorial page state that he died on October 2, 2020, while gun-violence memorial and archival databases associate his loss with October 7, 2020, and link that date to the law-enforcement response. The Gun Violence Archive entry for Holbrook records a single fatality from a shooting incident on October 2, 2020, and CrimeSolversCentral summarizes the discrepancy by noting the different dates reported in public sources.
Clark was born in Holbrook on November 28, 1959, to Ella Mae Garrett Clark and Curtis Clark Jr., and is described in his obituary as having spent most of his life in the same small community where he ultimately died. He also lived for a time in Glendale, Arizona, but maintained close ties to Holbrook and “made many friends there,” according to the funeral home. He was remembered as a devoted member of St. John's Missionary Baptist Church, known for sharing his Christian faith, and as a “jack of all trades” who could fix “just about anything,” a practical skill that family and friends highlighted when commemorating his life.
Family notices list a large extended family network, including his mother, numerous brothers and sisters, and many nieces and nephews, several of whom are named in the public obituary and condolence pages. These same notices describe a graveside service held on October 17, 2020, at Holbrook Cemetery, officiated by Pastor Randolph Hollingsworth, with mask-wearing and social distancing required because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Memorial websites invite visitors to light virtual candles, send flowers, or plant trees in his memory, underscoring the sense of loss felt in the community and among his relatives.
Regarding the circumstances of the killing, online sources agree that Clark's death involved gunfire and that the Holbrook Police Department opened a homicide investigation. GunMemorial and CrimeSolversCentral both tie the case to a local news article titled “Police investigate suspected homicide” in The Tribune, reflecting that law enforcement publicly labeled the incident a suspected homicide shortly after it occurred. Gun-violence databases categorize the event as a single-victim fatal shooting in Holbrook.
However, the publicly accessible material does not provide detailed information about exactly where in town the shooting occurred, what led up to it, or any description of a shooter. CrimeSolversCentral's entry explicitly asks readers for “any updates on this case,” and, as of its latest update in late 2025, it still lists the matter simply as a death by force with a suspected homicide classification and no additional narrative about a perpetrator. Neither the obituary, the memorial sites, nor the case-tracking pages mention a named suspect or record any arrest connected to Clark's killing, and the case continues to appear in online homicide and cold-case compilations without indication that it has been solved.
