Police Brutality / Individual record
Yohans Leon
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Yohans Leon in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-11-17 in Miami, FL. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-308
- Incident date
- November 17, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Miami, FL
- Agency
- Miami-Dade Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 28
What happened
Yohans Leon, 28, was killed in a Miami-Dade police shooting on November 17, 2015, near Southwest 206th Street and West 127th Avenue. Miami New Times' year-end examination of county police killings reports that the encounter followed the robbery of a Wendy's restaurant. Police shot Leon during the ensuing confrontation. Miami-Dade's medical examiner database separately confirms that a man named Yohans Leon died that morning, assigning case number 2015-03275. The reporting and death record establish the event but do not independently resolve how the confrontation developed, which officer fired, or whether an internal or prosecutorial review made a final determination. No conclusion about Leon's actions beyond the reported robbery allegation is inferred here.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1010
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- foot
- Agency IDs (source)
- 219
Sources & records
- Primary source
- Additional source
- Methodology and national police killings trackingMapping Police Violence · Dataset/methodology
- Fatal Force v2 — fatal on-duty police shootings, 2015–2024The Washington Post · Dataset