{"id":39903,"date":"2016-05-09T11:48:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T15:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=39903"},"modified":"2016-05-09T11:48:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T15:48:59","slug":"homicide-in-lehigh-acres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/05\/homicide-in-lehigh-acres\/","title":{"rendered":"Homicide in Lehigh Acres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-39904\" title=\"Jonthomas Hobbs\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Jonthomas-Hobbs-246x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Jonthomas-Hobbs-246x300.png 246w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Jonthomas-Hobbs.png 316w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/>Lee County deputies have identified the person\u00a0found dead in Lehigh Acres on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The death of Jonthomas Hobbs, 17, is being investigated as a homicide.<\/p>\n<p>A patrol car has been stationed near the intersection of 32nd Street SW and Wanda Avenue since deputies swarmed the area about 9:42 pm. Sunday, searching by air and by land with K9 units.<\/p>\n<p>Not much information has been released regarding the circumstances of the death, but a witness said it was a shooting.<\/p>\n<p>At one point, our news reporter heard deputies shout into a home with a loud speaker, telling someone to come out of the home with their hands up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDetectives say this was an isolated incident and the surrounding community is not in any danger,\u201d the department said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Hobbs was arrested in 2013 for second-degree battery, according to Lee County jail records. His last listed address was on Maddox Lane in Bonita Springs.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information should call the Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office at\u00a0(239) 477-1000. Or, to remain anonymous and be eligible for a cash reward of up to $1000, call Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers at 1-800-780-TIPS. Tips may also be made online at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.swflcrimestoppers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.swflcrimestoppers.org<\/a>\u00a0or by texting a tip to CRIMES (274637) keyword: REWARD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee County deputies have identified the person\u00a0found dead in Lehigh Acres on Sunday. The death of Jonthomas Hobbs, 17, is being investigated as a homicide. A patrol car has been&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":39904,"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\/39903"}],"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=39903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}