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LaTorrie Beckford was 29 when he was found dead from multiple gunshot wounds in the parking lot of an apartment complex near 55th Avenue and Camelback Road in Glendale, Arizona. He was pronounced dead at the scene on the evening of December 13, 2017. Police initially had few leads and no suspect description, leaving his family — including his mother, Anthia Wint, and his younger sister, Chloe Ridore — grieving and calling him an innocent bystander caught in senseless violence.

A later forensic breakthrough came when ballistic testing linked the weapon used in Beckford’s killing to several other fatal shootings across the Phoenix metropolitan area over a three-week span. That linkage identified a single suspect, Cleophus Cooksey Jr., who had been at the same apartment complex earlier the day Beckford was killed. The specific motive for Beckford’s murder and any relationship between him and Cooksey remained unclear.

Did anyone in the Glendale area see anything in that parking lot around 55th and Camelback on December 13, 2017?