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.
A man previously implicated in the disappearance of missing mother
Leila Cavett has been accused of killing her.
Shannon Demar Ryan, 39, faces a count of second-degree murder, according to a partially redacted police statement obtained by Law&Crime.
Cavett’s 2-year-old son was found wandering the streets of Miramar, Florida on July 26, 2020, cops have said. There was no apparent trace of his parents. Officers soon figured out, however, that he was the son of Atlanta woman Leila Cavett. Police in nearby Hollywood, Florida took over the investigation after they found Cavett’s white pickup truck in their jurisdiction.
Enter Shannon Ryan, who was arrested in August for allegedly lying to federal investigators in connection to Leila’s disappearance. This self-described teacher of “witchcraft” had released a nearly hour-long video in which he denied wrongdoing. He asserted Cavett went down to Florida to sell him her truck. He maintained that he spoke to the police, telling
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A man previously implicated in the disappearance of missing mother
Leila Cavett has been accused of killing her.
Shannon Demar Ryan, 39, faces a count of second-degree murder, according to a partially redacted police statement obtained by Law&Crime.
Cavett’s 2-year-old son was found wandering the streets of Miramar, Florida on July 26, 2020, cops have said. There was no apparent trace of his parents. Officers soon figured out, however, that he was the son of Atlanta woman Leila Cavett. Police in nearby Hollywood, Florida took over the investigation after they found Cavett’s white pickup truck in their jurisdiction.