Florida Deputies Ruled Her Son’s Death a Suicide in Minutes. Then She Saw Where the Gun Was

It took less than a minute for Florida deputies to classify Adam Jamil Leisher’s death as suicide after opening his bedroom door in December 2024, his mother says. But five weeks later, when an investigator from the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office showed his mother the photos of how police found his body, she noticed the gun was in his left hand — which deepened her suspicions that someone had killed her 33-year-old son. “I said, ‘Do you even realize that Adam is right-handed and that firearm was in the wrong hand?’” Farah Awan said in a telephone interview with Atlanta Black Star. But she said the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office dismissed her concerns about a possible homicide, closing the case on March 6, 2025, leaving key questions unanswered. Later that month, she launched a Facebook page called Justice for Adam Leisher, where she posts commentary questioning the investigation along with materials like bodycam footage and the 911 call. On Nov.

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