Around 4:00pm on Friday, April 27th, 1973, Clayton Couch met up with his friend Boyd “Eddie” Sparks and Sparks’ father and brother. They were all in Nashville from Kentucky and planned on going to the Grand Ole Opry. The Opry had sold out tickets for the night so they decided to go downtown and have some beers instead. They were sitting in the Broadway Club located at 102 1/2 6th Ave. North around 11:00pm when they were approached by a white male and a Hispanic male accusing the men of laughing at them. Despite saying they hadn’t been, the two young males each shot at and hit Couch, then ran out of the bar. Couch was transported to the hospital and succumbed to his injuries the next morning, Saturday, April 28th, 1973. Couch was 30 years old at the time of his death.
If you have any information regarding the murder of Clayton Couch, please contact the Cold Case Homicide Unit at MNPDColdCase@nashville.gov
You can also call the Nashville Police Department’s Crime Stoppers Division anonymously at 615-742-7463
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