Was Leslie Logan Jr.’s Killing Justifiable Force

Leslie Logan Jr.

On September nineteenth, thirty year old Leslie Logan Jr. was shot by a Chinese proprietor after an armed robbery at Hung Yun Store. Logan had already jacked around five hundred in cash and handed it to an accomplice who fled the scene. As Logan attempted to do the same, the proprietor of the store ran out and shot him dead. Now here’s where things get a little murky. Logan robbed the store at gunpoint yes, but he was leaving the premises when he got shot. So was the use of lethal force justified? The Police obviously thought so because the Chinese man was never arrested for murder. But the matter was far from over. On October twenty-first Logan’s family called a press conference to accuse the Police Department of a cover-up. Interestingly, Logan’s father, Leslie Logan Sr. is a highly decorated retired Police officer himself. For context we revisit his comments.

Leslie Logan Sr., Father of Slain Robber [File: October 21^st, 2014]

Leslie Logan Sr.

“The Chiney man shoot my son on the foot first and he fell, you know, and the Chiney, oh, the witness also said that when that shooting was occurring there was a policeman on the scene in uniform.  A policeman on the scene in uniform and the policeman tell di Chiney man, “shoot ahn because dehn done rob yo already. Ih done rob yo already so shoot ahn.”  And the Chiney man actually stand over, one foot over this side, one foot over this side and pumping lead in my son and he, the witness, counted nine expended shells on the scene, on the ground.  Nine.  All that he could have managed to say and then he even took off the cap, because my son was wearing a cap, off his head to recognize him and he said, oh he knew da who.  And the policeman told them, “move from the scene, move from the scene, yet they have not approached that boy to give a statement.  There is nothing, nothing that the police is doing that I can say that they are investigating the murder.  Now I went to Orange Walk police, you know.  I tried to speak to Mr. Tillett because Mr. Tillett says it’s self-defense because he went for a gun.  How the hell somebody who went for a gun can stand over next one and shoot him?  With his hands up begging for his life.  Matter of fact the gun that they found my son with, that he had, was empty.  There was no bullet in it.”