In the early morning hours of May 6, 2022, gunfire at the Beech Street Apartments in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, left 58-year-old Clyde Edward Scott dead. Officers arrived about 2:40 a.m. and found Scott lying between two apartment buildings; medical personnel pronounced him dead at the scene. His body was sent to the Arkansas State Crime Laboratory for autopsy and the Detective Division immediately began a canvass for evidence and witnesses.

Police had not identified suspects or a motive in the initial reports, and the shooting was recorded as the city’s eleventh homicide that year. The investigation remains open and no arrests have been announced. If anyone saw activity near the 2100 block of Beech Street around that time or has information about Clyde Edward Scott’s death, please come forward.