{"id":41253,"date":"2016-09-26T09:16:51","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T13:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=41253"},"modified":"2016-09-26T09:16:51","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T13:16:51","slug":"no-zombicon-this-year-its-canceled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/09\/no-zombicon-this-year-its-canceled\/","title":{"rendered":"No Zombicon This Year \u201cIt\u2019s Canceled\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-41254\" title=\"zombies-000001\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/zombies-000001-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/zombies-000001-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/zombies-000001-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/zombies-000001-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/zombies-000001.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>ZombiCon will not be held this year period, according to a PR company for Pushing\u00a0Daizies, the event organizers.<\/p>\n<p>Why the event that typically draws about 20,000 to downtown Fort Myers was canceled or when the decision was reached is still unknown at this point.<\/p>\n<p>Zombicon is a charity event that supports local art and music, however, a\u00a0shooting occurred at last year&#8217;s function on October 17th which killed 20-year-old Tyrell Taylor and injured six others.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of tips have come in to try and help find the shooter but no arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p>A total of $36,000 is on the table for anyone that provides a tip that leads to an arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information, including photos and video from the scene,\u00a0is asked to call the Fort Myers Police Department at\u00a0(239) 321-7700, or Crime Stoppers at\u00a01-800-780-TIPS\u00a0or text message C-R-I-M-E-S (274637) Keyword FMPD. Tipsters can remain anonymous.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the shooting, cameras were installed downtown after it happened.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made in the case.<\/p>\n<p>Although the city of Fort Myers told Pushing Daizies that ZombiCon couldn&#8217;t happen downtown for this year, organizers have checked out other possible locations to hold the event in Lee County, but no progress has come of that.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZombiCon will not be held this year period, according to a PR company for Pushing\u00a0Daizies, the event organizers. Why the event that typically draws about 20,000 to downtown Fort Myers&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":41254,"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\/41253"}],"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=41253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}