Homicide Investigation 

June 29, 2025 – Riverside County Sheriff's Office officials report that during the course of the investigation, investigators from the Riverside Sheriff’s Central Homicide Unit identified the suspect in this case as 43-year-old Robert Leonard, a resident of Beaumont. 

On June 27, 2025, homicide investigators arrested Leonard with the assistance of the Riverside County District Attorney's Gang Impact Team and the Riverside Sheriff's Special Enforcement Bureau's K-9 Unit. Leonard was booked into a Riverside County jail for murder.

Anyone with additional information regarding this investigation is encouraged to contact Investigator Manjarrez with the Central Homicide Unit at (951) 955-2777 or Cabazon Station Investigator Letterly at (760) 393-3502.

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Riverside County Homicide Investigation Opened for Man Killed on Morongo Road in Banning

Reporting Supervisor: Sergeant Alberto Loureiro

File # MG251760013

Source & photo: Riverside County Sheriff's Office