Leon Yohans, 28

Miami, Florida
November 17, 2015

Agencies: Miami-Dade Police Department Florida | Florida Department of Law Enforcement FDLE

Cause of death: Not Yet Known


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On Tuesday, November 17, 2015, Leon Yohans, 28, was killed more than a mile from a Wendy’s restaurant just west of Cutler Bay after he held up the fast food restaurant manager at gunpoint, police said. Officers said they opened fire when Yohans produced a firearm, which was recovered near his body on a canal bank. An arrest affidavit from 2012 provided to the Herald from news partner CBS 4 claims that Yohans was a discharged Iraq war veteran who had moved in with his parents and suffered post-traumatic stress disorder.

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