On the night of October 30, 2023, 38-year-old Forrest Allen Ryan of Chester, Maryland, was found dead in the driver’s seat of a black Porsche Cayenne that had struck a tree at Kimwood Road and Driftwood Court in Arnold. Officers who responded around 10:10 p.m. discovered an apparent gunshot wound to his upper body; fire department personnel pronounced him deceased at the scene after life-saving efforts. Detectives say the vehicle had also struck an unoccupied parked SUV before hitting the tree, and the situation was treated as a homicide rather than a crash alone.

Ryan, born February 10, 1985, in Germany and raised in Pasadena, Maryland, was a Chesapeake High School graduate, a father and a self-taught guitarist. Investigators described the evidence at the scene as suggesting a targeted incident. No arrests have been announced and no suspects publicly identified.

If anyone has information about Ryan, his movements that night, or the intersection where the crash occurred, please contact the homicide detectives.