Perry Garry, 42, a Black male, was shot and killed in Forrest City, Arkansas, on May 27, 2020. He was remembered locally as “Perry Garry, Jr.” in funeral notices that confirmed his birth on April 21, 1978, and his death on the day of the shooting. The killing added to a difficult period for the city, which had already endured a series of high-profile incidents that year and left detectives canvassing neighborhoods and appealing for community help while the medical examiner completed routine
post-incident procedures.
Police opened a homicide investigation and worked leads in the days that followed. Community memorial pages recorded the basic facts of the case—his name, age, and the date and place of his death—and directed readers to local television coverage indicating that Forrest City police had arrested a homicide suspect. While those brief items did not publicly name a suspect or spell out specific charges, they reflected that an arrest was made in connection with the killing even as officials withheld further details.
Friends and relatives marked his passing online with candles and messages while investigators continued their work. The obituary posted by the funeral home provided biographical confirmation but, like many such notices, did not go into investigative specifics. In the absence of fuller public filings, the picture that remains is of a man whose life was cut short by gunfire and a case that prompted at least one arrest, with limited information about the suspect shared openly at the time.
