Ricky Lamour Dates, a resident of Phoenix, Arizona, is documented in public obituary listings as having died on August 25, 2016, with funeral services handled through Resthaven / Carr-Tenney Mortuary & Memorial Gardens and burial arrangements under East Resthaven Park Mortuary & Cemetery in Phoenix. These obituary notices acknowledge his passing and direct mourners to leave memories or condolences but do not discuss how he died or provide any narrative about the circumstances surrounding his death.
Separate from the funeral notices, his name appears in an online cold-case directory that tracks unsolved deaths and missing persons. That listing records the victim as “Ricky Dates” in Phoenix, Arizona, labels the case “Death by Force,” and shows both the “Date Found” and “Date of Death” as 2016-08-25, indicating that he was discovered and pronounced dead on the same day. The entry classifies his race as “Unknown” and provides no further biographical information—these online records give his full name and city but do not report his age, gender, or ethnicity—and they contain no narrative description of what happened, only a brief case heading, basic identifiers, and an invitation for the public to submit any information or corrections.
His name also surfaces in the “Area Cold Cases” panels embedded on various crime-mapping pages for the Phoenix area. In those panels, “Ricky Dates” is listed in a short directory line that includes his name, a reference to his case as a murder, and the Phoenix Police Department as the investigating agency, but it appears only as a compact cross-reference with a “View Source” link and no additional descriptive text. These map-based listings function as pointers to a cold-case file rather than as full articles, so they do not reveal details such as the precise location of the attack, the type of force used, or any theory about motive; they simply reinforce that his death is treated in public datasets as a homicide-style case overseen by Phoenix authorities.
Across the obituary notices, the cold-case directory entry, and these aggregated crime-mapping panels, there is no mention of anyone arrested in connection with the killing or of any named suspect or person of interest. The cold-case profile for Ricky Dates lists no “links to additional sources,” offers no suspect description, and shows a recent “Last Updated” date in late November 2025 without adding any news of an investigative breakthrough, which strongly indicates that his death remains an unsolved case in public-facing records.
