2022 is going to be remembered in the BJJ world as a tragic year, when Jiu-Jitsu legend Leandro Lo needlessly lost his life in an incident in a night-club in Brazil, when an off-duty cop shot him in the head, killing him on the spot. Now, Dillon Danis sheds some more light on what happened that night.
In the latest episode of the “MMA Hour,” Dillon Danis had something interesting to say for a change. During the interview which focused mostly on his upcoming fight with YouTuber KSI, Danis told the story about Leandro Lo getting shot, adding some details about what happened.
Apparently, the two of them spent some time together not long before the inside. according to Dannis:
”I was with him not that long before he… what happened to him and it’s just like so crazy because something like that could happen to me too.”
When Ariel Helwani inquired further looking for the reason for the incident in which Leandro Lo was killed, Danis explained that:
“Apparently the guy was like uh jealous of him and he was outside and the Leandro had a bunch of girls they were hanging out, and then guy was just jealous.
So he took the bottle [of tequilla] like that and like drank it and Leandro took him down choked him out and like and then they got separated in there the guy is like ‘oh I’m good’ and then he was like pacing back and forth and just came up and shot him”.
Danis went on to say the cop that shot Leandro Lo is in prison, but he is in a special prison for cops, and as such is removed from the general population that could be looking to avenge Lo.
After all, the BJJ World adored Leandro, which was clear as protests in front of police stations were held after his death and his close friends went to his funerals wearing Gis to show their respect for the impact Leanro Lo had on Jiu-Jitsu.
