{"id":348851,"date":"2026-07-22T18:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T18:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/348851\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T18:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T18:12:11","slug":"road-rage-suspect-leonard-bryant-sr-pleads-not-guilty-to-murder-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/348851\/","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\">&gt;&gt;&gt; STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE &lt;&lt;&lt;<\/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\">[SIGN UP: <a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.actionnewsjax.com\/newsletters\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/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\/\">identified and arrested Bryant Sr.<\/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\">[DOWNLOAD: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/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\">Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/video\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/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":2,"featured_media":348852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[643,142782,124513,142780,82529,104433,1293,969,116,118,117,1872,142781,142779,634,3095,142783,142778,71896],"class_list":["post-348851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action_news_jack","tag-bryan_senior","tag-bryant","tag-bryant_senior","tag-dakota","tag-duval_county_court","tag-i-10","tag-jack","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jso","tag-leonard_bryant_jr","tag-leonard_bryant_senior","tag-local","tag-swat","tag-toby_robinson","tag-zayan","tag-zion_deoto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}