Keith Minick, 24, was killed by gunshot wounds on October 2, 2017, in a noontime shooting at the intersection of North Fourth and Washington streets in Allentown. The Lehigh County coroner ruled his death a homicide. He and 28-year-old Richard Vera Jr. were both on foot and were the two men killed in the incident.

Security camera footage of the shootout showed five men involved and captured Minick and Vera each pulling out handguns and shooting. Erick Pookie Guzman, identified as a member of the East Side Piru Bloods, was seen firing toward both men and was later charged with multiple weapons violations including two counts of unlawful possession of a firearm. Investigators reported the shooting arose from a dispute between rival subsets of the Bloods gang — the G-Shine Bloods and the Bounty Hunter Bloods — reportedly over drug money and territorial control.

Friends and family remembered Minick as kind, loyal, fond of basketball, and dedicated to his family. The double homicide was recorded as the 12th and 13th homicides in Allentown that year.