Raccoon City: A humble little burg out in Middle America nestled between spacious mountains and a lush forest. Shame that a nuclear disaster ended up wiping it out of existence. The Umbrella Corporation claimed it to be a problem at the nuclear power plant that caused the imminent destruction of the city. Others claimed it to be the work of a strategic air strike by the corporation itself to "sterilize" a viral outbreak that they caused to "further the betterment of mankind." The U.S. government decided to step in.
All gathered evidence of the corporation's shady dealings had been found, delivered to the President himself by the remaining members of the Raccoon branch of S.T.A.R.S., an organization within local police departments to give aid in situations not necessarily within the police's jurisdiction. The evidence consisted of testimonies from Chris Redfield, Jill Valentine, Rebecca Chambers, and Barry Burton. But it wasn't enough to declare Umbrella a threat to world security. Other testimony came from R.P.D. rookie Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield, who were on hand to verify some of Jill's story.
With the Umbrella Corporation ousted from its position as a pharmaceutical powerhouse, they simply faded into obscurity once their stock prices plummeted to an all-time low. Each of the survivors of Umbrella's dealings eventually went their separate ways, and were given a semblance of their old lives back, but memories of old still plague them.
Leon Kennedy had just completed his Special Forces training. After Umbrella went down in flames, the government gave him a job in protecting the President and his family. Although the job made him seem to be a big bad bodyguard, he liked it. As far as he knew, he didn't need to shoot anymore zombies, mutant dogs, or creatures that stood over seven feet tall with long, serrated claws. It would be a while until he got assigned to protect the President, his superiors didn't want him to slack off, and they assigned him to investigate a small town out in the mid-West.