By Victor Omondi
Shannon Demar Ryan, 39, is facing a second-degree murder charge for allegedly killing Leila Cavett. In August last year, Ryan was implicated and arrested for purportedly lying to state investigators in the disappearance of Cavett.
In a probable cause affidavit, police stated that they found Ryan Cavett’s truck. The officers found that truck with the suspect, despite having denied having any association with Cavett through a roughly one hour-long video that he’d released. He instead insisted that Cavett had come from Atlanta to Florida to sell her truck to him. Ryan told the police that Cavett had been speaking to some men and later got into their car with her son even after he’d tried talking her out of it. She never returned, he said.