{"id":25541,"date":"2013-08-16T10:30:44","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T14:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=25541"},"modified":"2013-08-16T10:30:44","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T14:30:44","slug":"death-ruled-homicide-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/08\/death-ruled-homicide-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Ruled Homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_25542\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25542\" style=\"width: 172px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25542\" title=\"BYRTUS, KYLE ALEXANDER\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/BYRTUS-KYLE-ALEXANDER.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"172\" height=\"211\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25542\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">KYLE ALEXANDER BYRTUS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Detectives with the Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office Major Crimes Unit say a man found dead in Lehigh Acres yesterday was the victim of a homicide. The victim has been positively identified as Kyle Byrtus (DOB 5-17-88) of Fort Myers.\u00a0 His body was discovered in the area of Meadow Road and Leah Court in Lehigh Acres.\u00a0 The cause of death is not being released at this time as the investigation continues.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who has seen Byrtus recently or has knowledge of the circumstances surrounding his death is asked to call the Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office at\u00a0<a href=\"tel:%28239%29%20477-1000\" target=\"_blank\">(239) 477-1000<\/a>.\u00a0 Or, to remain anonymous and be eligible for a cash reward of up to $1,000, call Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers at 1-800-780-TIPS (8477). Tips may also be made online at<a href=\"http:\/\/www.swflcrimestoppers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.swflcrimestoppers.org<\/a>\u00a0via text to CRIMES (274637) Keyword: REWARD or through the TipSubmit app on any Smart phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detectives with the Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office Major Crimes Unit say a man found dead in Lehigh Acres yesterday was the victim of a homicide. The victim has been positively&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":25542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}