Homestead officers justified in man’s fatal shooting last year: State attorney

Four officers were justified when they shot and killed a man during a confrontation at a Homestead home last year, prosecutors said.

A July 10 memo from the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office cleared the Homestead Police officers in the shooting of 33-year-old Leandro Francisco Ledea Chong.

The officers had responded to the 400 block of Sunrise Boulevard back on March 30, 2024, after receiving ShotSpotter gunshot detection alerts…

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