Forrest Beckett Keys, a 20-year-old University of Arizona student from Pennsylvania, was fatally shot on the night of February 20, 2021. Keys, a communications major, was walking with friends near the Cherry Avenue parking garage on the Tucson campus at about 11 p.m. when a verbal altercation began with the occupants of a passing maroon Cadillac.

According to police, the Cadillac turned around and returned toward Keys and his friends. After words were exchanged through an open window, Keys punched one of the passengers. An occupant of the vehicle then shot Keys multiple times at close range. He ran a short distance but collapsed in the parking garage and was pronounced dead at the scene from two gunshot wounds to the chest.

The Tucson Police Department, working with the University of Arizona Police Department, opened a homicide investigation that identified suspects within days and led to arrests.

If anyone witnessed the altercation outside the Cherry Avenue parking garage that night or has information about the shooting, please share what is known.