{"id":51881,"date":"2022-01-06T14:51:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T19:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=51881"},"modified":"2022-01-06T14:52:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T19:52:18","slug":"lcso-confirms-homicide-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2022\/01\/lcso-confirms-homicide-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"LCSO confirms homicide investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A homicide investigation is taking place in the area of Gerald Ave. and E. 6th Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screenshot-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51882\" width=\"341\" height=\"424\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;The Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office has confirmed a homicide investigation is underway in Lehigh Acres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several deputy vehicles surrounded and taped off a portion of Gerald Ave. near East 6th St. early Thursday morning. A van from the LCSO Crime Scene Unit arrived shortly before 7 a.m., followed shortly thereafter by a mobile command unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A neighbor walking his dog Thursday morning said the presence of law enforcement has him concerned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/s1-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"51883\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/s1.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?attachment_id=51883\" class=\"wp-image-51883\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/s1-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/s1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/s1-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/s1.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/s2-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"51884\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/s2.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?attachment_id=51884\" class=\"wp-image-51884\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/s2-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/s2-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/s2-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/s2.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In a tweet posted just before 10 a.m. Thursday, LCSO wrote &#8220;The incident is isolated and all parties are accounted for.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">LCSO is currently investigating a homicide on Gerald Ave in Lehigh Acres. <br><br>The incident is isolated and all parties are accounted for. <br><br>The investigation remains active.<br><br>Updates forthcoming. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RyJXy30NiG\">pic.twitter.com\/RyJXy30NiG<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Lee Sheriff &#8211; Carmine Marceno (@SheriffLeeFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SheriffLeeFL\/status\/1479102770074456069?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a developing story and we will bring you any new updates as we get them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A homicide investigation is taking place in the area of Gerald Ave. and E. 6th Street. &nbsp;The Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office has confirmed a homicide investigation is underway in Lehigh&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":51884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[1006],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51881"}],"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=51881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51886,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51881\/revisions\/51886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}