{"id":42007,"date":"2016-12-02T19:03:21","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T00:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=42007"},"modified":"2016-12-02T19:03:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T00:03:21","slug":"lehigh-acres-couple-facing-death-penalty-in-clewiston-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/12\/lehigh-acres-couple-facing-death-penalty-in-clewiston-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Acres Couple Facing Death Penalty In Clewiston Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Special to the Lehigh Acres Gazette<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-42008\" title=\"couple death copy1\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/couple-death-copy1-300x162.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/couple-death-copy1-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/couple-death-copy1.png 559w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The state attorney\u2019s office will seek the death penalty against a Lehigh Acres couple charged with first-degree murder<\/p>\n<p>Bubba Wayne O\u2019Connor, 42, and Wendy Michelle Soucier, 49,\u00a0were indicted Oct. 11 in connection to the death of 72-year-old Clewiston resident Cherry Ermine. They\u2019re also charged with attempted first-degree murder, robbery with a deadly weapon and first degree burglary.<\/p>\n<p>Ermine was found dead inside her Clewiston home after authorities said O\u2019Connor and Soucier attempted to rob her. Frank Jansson, 69, was critically injured during the incident.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Connor and Soucier were armed when they went to the home where Ermine and Jansson lived, investigators said. A fight broke out when O\u2019Connor and Soucier\u00a0attempted to rob them, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special to the Lehigh Acres Gazette The state attorney\u2019s office will seek the death penalty against a Lehigh Acres couple charged with first-degree murder Bubba Wayne O\u2019Connor, 42, and Wendy&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":42008,"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\/42007"}],"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=42007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}