{"id":52972,"date":"2022-04-13T19:27:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T23:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=52972"},"modified":"2022-04-13T19:27:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T23:27:10","slug":"body-of-kayaker-found-in-estero-river-identified-as-lehigh-teen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2022\/04\/body-of-kayaker-found-in-estero-river-identified-as-lehigh-teen\/","title":{"rendered":"Body of kayaker found in Estero River identified as Lehigh teen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A missing kayaker has been identified after he was found dead Tuesday afternoon in Estero, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1536\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/636150753893857768-estero-river.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-52974\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Officers identified the kayaker as 19-year-old Jonathon Pierre-Francois of Lehigh Acres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"415\" height=\"319\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Jonathon-Pierre-Francois-of-Lehigh-Acres.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-52973\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Jonathon-Pierre-Francois-of-Lehigh-Acres.png 415w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Jonathon-Pierre-Francois-of-Lehigh-Acres-300x231.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities were searching for Pierre-Francois in the Estero River near Sandy Lane after a call came in around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officials said two people fell into the Estero River, and one person was able to swim to shore and call for help. The other person did not resurface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pierre-Francois\u2019 body was recovered once authorities responded to the scene. The two individuals were not wearing a personal flotation device, said authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office and Estero Fire Rescue were at the scene on Sandy Lane, off Corkscrew Road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no further information. FWC officials said the investigation could take months to complete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A missing kayaker has been identified after he was found dead Tuesday afternoon in Estero, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC). Officers identified the kayaker as&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":52974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[1221],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52972"}],"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=52972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52975,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52972\/revisions\/52975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}