{"id":48093,"date":"2021-03-31T22:32:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T02:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=48093"},"modified":"2021-03-31T22:32:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T02:32:25","slug":"lehigh-acres-man-dies-after-being-shot-tuesday-night-in-cape-coral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/03\/lehigh-acres-man-dies-after-being-shot-tuesday-night-in-cape-coral\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Acres man dies after being shot Tuesday night in Cape Coral"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cape Coral police are investigating a Tuesday night shooting that left a man&nbsp;dead in a residence on Southeast 16th Place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"306\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Nelson-Leyva.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-48094\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Nelson-Leyva.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Nelson-Leyva-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Nelson-Leyva-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption>\u00a0Nelson Leyva<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Police reported they responded at 10 p.m.&nbsp;to the shooting in the 900 block and found a man who had been&nbsp;shot, according to a news release from Master Sgt. Patrick O&#8217;Grady.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The man,&nbsp;identified as&nbsp;Nelson Leyva, 28, of Lehigh Acres, was taken to a hospital, where he later died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leyva&#8217;s death is considered a homicide, but whether charges will be filed is still under investigation, Master Cpl. Phillip Mullen said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His next of kin has been notified.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Major Crime\u2019s detectives and forensic specialists assumed the investigation, which is active and ongoing, O&#8217;Grady said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police will send out updates as more information is gathered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Coral police are investigating a Tuesday night shooting that left a man&nbsp;dead in a residence on Southeast 16th Place. Police reported they responded at 10 p.m.&nbsp;to the shooting in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":48094,"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\/48093"}],"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=48093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}