Justice for Jason: Mother Claims Son, Battling Schizophrenia, Unjustly Killed by Police in Homestead
Leandro Francisco Ledea Chong was the individual slain in a gunshot involving police, according to his relatives.
HOMESTEAD, Florida — In Homestead, a mother was mourning her 34-year-old son on Sunday. He was shot and killed by police on Saturday at his residence.
Katia Chong revealed to Local 10 News that there were bullet holes all over his home’s inside walls and front entrance and that his blood was all over the walls and the floor.
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She explained, sobbing, that her son Leandro Francisco Ledea Chong had schizophrenia, a condition that typically results in delusions and hallucinations.
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The bereaved mother spoke in Spanish, “He was a good kid and the police killed him as if he was an assassin or as if he would have committed a crime.”
When family members called the police on Friday to ask for assistance, Katia Chong claimed that her son was experiencing a mental health crisis. His fiancée, Madeleine Cabrera, claimed that just before he was shot and killed by police on Saturday at the Villas of Sunrise development, he was on the verge of receiving the necessary assistance.
It was his court date on the 22nd. According to Cabrera, a judge ordered him to check into a mental health facility.
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According to Homestead Police Department spokesman Capt. Fernando Morales, the standoff on Friday came to an end amicably. Leandro Chong may be seen talking to himself while standing at the front door in a witness video. He carried a fanny pack.
According to Morales, before the police-involved shooting, Leandro Chong threw objects at them and had his hands inside a fanny pack. On Saturday morning, police responded to a complaint of gunfire at the same residence.
Leandro Chong was hailed by Luisa Delvals and Karen Jam as “an amazing stepfather and an amazing husband” on a GoFundMe page. They say he carried only a screwdriver, a rehab pamphlet, and his keys in his fanny pack.
The officers involved in the police-involved shooting were placed on administrative leave while the Florida Department of Law Enforcement conducted an investigation.