18th Tacoma Homicide of 2025: Leonard "Boogeyman" Strickland

On the afternoon of October 10th, 2025 forty-nine-year-old Leonard Strickland sat in his car outside an apartment complex in the 3700 block of South Orchard Street. One of the apartments was that of his ex-wife who was inside with his ex-roommate. It was around two in the afternoon. The ex-roommate confronted Leonard. The two men agreed to fight and moved their cars so they had room to fight.