{"id":36189,"date":"2015-06-27T15:21:23","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T19:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=36189"},"modified":"2015-06-27T15:21:23","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T19:21:23","slug":"authorities-name-victim-in-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2015\/06\/authorities-name-victim-in-homicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities Name Victim In Homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6573\" title=\"Death\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Death.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"187\" \/>Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office on Saturday said Tehran Leaphart was killed in the early morning homicide at 2137 Wilson Road in Lehigh Acres the day before.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests are announced and Major Crime detectives are still investigating.<\/p>\n<p>Leaphart&#8217;s family, meanwhile, is left searching for answers after the father of three was found dead in a driveway.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities arrived at the scene Friday around 12:53 a.m.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Neighbors living along Bolt Lane near the Westminster Golf Club say they heard about five gunshots just before 1 o&#8217;clock Friday morning. They then heard a car speed away.<\/p>\n<p>Leaphart&#8217;s body was later found lying in a pool of blood in a nearby driveway.<\/p>\n<p>They say Leaphart was standing outside his brother&#8217;s home when he was suddenly gunned down. Records show Leaphart has been arrested 14 times in Lee County, mostly for drugs. Neighbors who know him, though, described him as a good person.<\/p>\n<p>It took investigators nearly 12 hours to remove Leaphart&#8217;s body from the scene. The family of his fiancee says the couple had three kids together -the oldest is just 7-years-old.<\/p>\n<p>Lee county deputies have not said if they are currently searching for anyone or what they think led up to Leaphart&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office on Saturday said Tehran Leaphart was killed in the early morning homicide at 2137 Wilson Road in Lehigh Acres the day before. No arrests are announced&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36189"}],"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=36189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}