{"id":952318,"date":"2026-07-22T18:06:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T18:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/952318\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T18:06:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T18:06:22","slug":"road-rage-suspect-leonard-bryant-sr-pleads-not-guilty-to-murder-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/952318\/","title":{"rendered":"Road rage suspect Leonard Bryant Sr. pleads not guilty to murder charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Leonard Bryant Sr., the suspected gunman accused in a road rage shooting case, pleaded not guilty to several charges including murder in Duval County court on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Bryant Sr. pleaded not guilty to six counts. They include one count of murder, four counts of attempted murder, and possession of a firearm by a felon. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/live-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/live-breaking\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>&gt;&gt;&gt; STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE &lt;&lt;&lt;<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">The charges related to murder carry a mandatory minimum of 25 years with the firearms charge carrying a three-year mandatory minimum. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">The state refused to offer Bryant Sr. a plea deal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\"><b>[SIGN UP: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.actionnewsjax.com\/newsletters\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a><b>] <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">The Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/news\/local\/father-son-face-charges-september-road-rage-killing-i-10-jso-says\/NZ65O7COIJFRJB35FB3GTN5BEU\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/news\/local\/father-son-face-charges-september-road-rage-killing-i-10-jso-says\/NZ65O7COIJFRJB35FB3GTN5BEU\/\"><b>identified and arrested Bryant Sr.<\/b><\/a> as the shooter in a road rage incident from September. His son, Leonard Bryant Jr., was arrested as an accessory to the case in a SWAT operation in June. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Bryant Sr. is accused of shooting into a car on Interstate 10 with five passengers, including a three-year-old, in September. Four people were shot, 26-year-old Toby Robinson was killed, the toddler was uninjured. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\"><b>[DOWNLOAD: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a><b>]<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">A speedy trial date is expected for December 17, but the state said a waiver of speedy trial was entered by Bryant\u2019s lawyer on May 11. The state then requested to hold off on trial date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Bryant Sr.\u2019s lawyer requested and was granted a 3 week pass date to review discovery evidence in the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Bryant Sr. is due back in court on August 12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Click here<\/b><\/a><b> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><b>click here<\/b><\/a><b> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/video\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><b>click here<\/b><\/a><b> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Leonard Bryant Sr., the suspected gunman accused in a road rage shooting case, pleaded not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":952319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5136],"tags":[15619,5229,383331,44823,383329,143192,383326,3188,723,46081,11561,7310,8423,383330,383328,425,41293,383332,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,383327,250518],"class_list":["post-952318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action_news_jack","tag-america","tag-bryan_senior","tag-bryant","tag-bryant_senior","tag-dakota","tag-duval_county_court","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-i-10","tag-jack","tag-jacksonville","tag-jso","tag-leonard_bryant_jr","tag-leonard_bryant_senior","tag-local","tag-swat","tag-toby_robinson","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-zayan","tag-zion_deoto"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116964962223311214","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/952319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}