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Forrest Keys

Case from Tucson, AZ dated Feb 20, 2021

Victim Details

Forrest Keys

Male

Black / African American

Tucson

AZ

2021-02-20

20

Forrest

Keys

Yes

07/04/2026

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

The situation escalated when the vehicle, a 2008 Cadillac DTS, turned ...
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  • KNXV: Tucson teen arrested in connection to UArizona student death
  • Arizona Daily Star: Police: Argument between occupants of car, University of Arizona student preceded fatal shooting
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