On the evening of December 28, 2019, Amrian Beckwith, a 33-year-old Black / African American man, was shot in a residential area near 7499 West Devonshire Avenue in Phoenix, Arizona. According to case information later released to the public, the shooting occurred at approximately 6:00 p.m., a time when people were still out in the neighborhood, and the attack left him critically injured at the scene.
Emergency responders transported him to a local hospital, but despite medical efforts he ultimately died from his wounds, turning what had begun as a routine Saturday into a fatal and still-unresolved act of violence.
Witness accounts gathered by investigators described three young Hispanic males in hooded sweatshirts in the area at the time of the shooting. Immediately after shots were fired, these three individuals were seen fleeing northbound on 74th Avenue; two of them ran on foot, while the third rode away on a bicycle. Their brief, hurried departure became a central part of the case narrative, and law enforcement has treated them as key suspects whose identification could be crucial to understanding what happened and why.
In the months and years that followed, the homicide remained unsolved. Silent Witness, the Phoenix-area anonymous tip line program, issued a public flyer highlighting Beckwith’s case and offered a reward of up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest or indictment of those responsible. The flyer reiterated the description of the three unidentified Hispanic suspects and emphasized that any tipster could remain completely anonymous. Unsolved-homicide tracking sites have continued to list the case as open, noting the reward, the basic facts of the shooting, and the lack of publicly reported arrests.
Online case summaries and community-driven crime-solver platforms continue to circulate Beckwith’s name, details of the location and time of the shooting, and the description of the three suspects in the hope that someone with knowledge of the incident will come forward. These sources stress that, as of their latest updates, no suspect has been identified by name in public records and no arrest has been announced in connection with the killing. The case therefore remains an open homicide in Phoenix, dependent on new information from witnesses, community members, or others who might help investigators finally determine who shot Beckwith and why.
