Christopher Lee Clark Jr.

Christopher Lee Clark Jr., known to friends and family as "Bubba," was a 32 year old handyman who lived at Prindel Creek Farm, a remote communal property in the Five Rivers area of Lane County, Oregon, in the Coast Range north of Deadwood. He was shot and killed there on December 26, 2024, in a case that drew national attention because of the love triangle at its center and the extraordinary legal road that followed, including a deadlocked first jury, a second trial, and a fatal police shooting of a bystander the day after Clark died.

Clark had returned to the Five Rivers area in 2022, a place where his father had once lived, and he settled into life on the remote farm doing odd jobs and maintenance work for people in the community. While living there he became involved in a romantic relationship with Christine Fuller, who was married to Everett Scott Fuller, a longtime resident of the property. Fuller later testified that he had once considered Clark a friend, saying the two had played horseshoes together and collected firewood, and that Clark had played football with his sons and acted as something of a mentor to them. That friendship collapsed as Fuller's marriage fell apart.

On the night of December 26, 2024, Everett Fuller shot Clark multiple times at the farm following an argument. Fuller said he fired in self-defense after Clark grabbed his leg and tried to pull him off an elevated platform onto a concrete floor below. Prosecutors told jurors a different story, that Fuller had long harbored jealousy and anger toward Clark over his relationship with Christine and had threatened him before the shooting. The day after Clark was killed, another resident of the farm, Tyler Holloway, 26, who had called 911 to report the shooting, was himself shot and killed by an Oregon State Police tactical team responding to the remote property, a death that is the subject of a separate wrongful death lawsuit.

Fuller was charged with second degree murder. His first trial, in June 2026, ended in a mistrial after jurors deadlocked eight to four on whether he had acted in self-defense. He was retried beginning in late October 2026, and on November 6, 2026, a Lane County jury found him not guilty of murder but guilty of first degree manslaughter. On November 12, 2026, a judge sentenced Fuller, then 57, to 10 years in prison followed by three years of post-prison supervision, the mandatory minimum for the charge. Clark's family, including his father, Christopher Clark Sr., and his young son, Christopher Clark III, said in court that the sentence felt far too light for a life taken. His father described him as kind hearted and loving, and his uncle told the court that the shooting had, in effect, hit three generations of the family at once.

Clark is remembered by those who knew him in the small Five Rivers community as a handyman who was willing to help his neighbors, and by his family as a devoted father whose death left a lasting wound that the length of a prison sentence could not fully address.