Family of Goodyear man slain in 2020 seeks public’s help
Tim and Renee Brookshire still ask the same questions that have haunted them for the past two and a half years.
Who or what interrupted Renee’s phone conversation with her 21-yearold son, Benny Galvan, on Sept. 5, 2020? Who was he with? Did he need help?
How did he go from a cheerful young man with a passion for basketball to a corpse lying in a canal near a residential neighborhood in Goodyear three days later?
The Brookshires lit candles at a memorial for their son set up by the canal where he was found near 151st and Windward avenues on Thursday afternoon, where they renewed their pleas for anyone with information regarding the nature of his death to share them anonymously with Silent Witness and give them even an iota of closure.
“I miss him,” Renee said, mere feet from the canal where her son’s body was found. “I miss him a lot. I need closure. I need something — just anything.”
Tim Brookshire echoed his wife’s desperation for any sliver of information that might quell the litany of “whatifs” that play on repeat every single day since their son’s death.
“We’re really looking for information — for anyone to come forward with any information — no matter how insignificant you believe it is,” Tim Brookshire said.
Lisa Berry, a spokesperson for the Goodyear Police Department, said detectives were treating the incident as a “death investigation” and not as a homicide.
Both parents said they have forgiven anyone who may have been involved in their son’s death, despite the tremendous loss they’ve suffered as a family.
“If you’re out there and you know anything, Benny would tell you ‘Please, do the right thing,’” Renee Brookshire said. “We forgive you. I forgive you.”
Anyone who provides information that helps police determine what caused Galvan’s death is eligible for up to $2,000 as a reward.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Silent Witness at 480-WITNESS or 480-TESTIGO. Anonymous tips can also be left on the organization’s website.