The Pine Bluff Police Department is in the early stages of investigating a second Christmas day homicide.
Officers heard several gunshots in the area of Blake Street just after 4:30 am Saturday morning. Shortly after they began to look where the gunshots were coming from, a shooting was called in at Ernesto’s Club at 218 S. Blake.
When Officers arrived they located a male with apparent gunshot wounds lying in a car in the parking lot of Ernesto’s on the South side of the building.
The male in the car was pronounced dead at the scene by the Jefferson County Coroner’s office and identified as 24-year-old Deondrick Clark.
The investigation is in the early stages and there are no reported suspects at this time.
Anyone with information on this homicide is asked to call the detective office at 870-730-2090 or the dispatch center at 870-541-5300.
The body will be taken to the Arkansas State Crime Lab for an autopsy to determine the official cause and manner of death.
This is the 29th homicide for Pine Bluff in 2021.
