{"id":107175,"date":"2026-01-06T03:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T03:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/107175\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T03:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T03:48:09","slug":"14-year-old-boy-charged-with-trying-to-kill-four-in-propane-arson-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/107175\/","title":{"rendered":"14-year-old boy charged with trying to kill four in propane arson attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. \u2014 The Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said a 14-year-old boy attempted to kill four people inside a home by igniting a propane tank at their front door. <\/p>\n<p>WATCH: Fox 4&#8217;s Eric Lovelace introduces us to the victims:<\/p>\n<p>14-year-old boy charged with trying to kill four in propane arson attack, Lee County sheriff says<\/p>\n<p>According to Sheriff Carmine Marceno, firefighters rushed to the home on Paisley Avenue on Saturday, Jan. 5 around 6 a.m. in Lehigh Acres.<\/p>\n<p>Namiry \u00c1lvarez said she woke up to the smell of smoke. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cErika called me and said, &#8220;Miri, run, the house is on fire!&#8221;, \u00c1lvarez said. &#8220;I thought it was just the kid baking bread and burning it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767671288_33_.jpeg\" alt=\"The \u00c1lvarez family speaking with reporters after the fire. \"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Fox 4. <\/p>\n<p>\u00c1lvarez, who is pregnant, said smoke quickly filled their home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We didn&#8217;t know what was outside, and there was already a lot of smoke inside the house,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We couldn&#8217;t breathe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff said the suspect, Maikol Estrada Gomez, parked down the road and walked up to the house. Deputies said he had a five-gallon propane tank, a glass bottle full of gas and a wick. <\/p>\n<p>It caught fire and video shows part of the front door charred. No one was hurt inside the house. <\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767671289_113_.png\" alt=\"Charred front door\"  width=\"1261\" height=\"707\"\/><\/p>\n<p>LCSO<\/p>\n<p>As investigators worked to figure out the motive, the sheriff said Gomez knew someone in the house. Marceno said they were friends at one point, but the friendship &#8220;went south&#8221; and there was &#8220;extreme hatred&#8221; between the two of them. <\/p>\n<p>Yulando Enrique was also in the home. He said he&#8217;s still in shock because he never thought Gomez would do something like this to him. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I felt bad because I never thought he&#8217;d do that to me, and well, that&#8217;s it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767671289_322_.jpeg\" alt=\"Yulando \u00c1lvarez speaking about the fire. \"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Fox 4. <\/p>\n<p>The sheriff said Gomez admitted to wanting to kill the people inside the house and hurting his former friend, who the sheriff said was around his age. <\/p>\n<p>Gomez is charged with four counts of attempted murder, armed burglary, arson, making a destructive device, and possession\/use of a weapon. <\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767671289_968_.jpeg\" alt=\"The \u00c1lvarez family picking up debris after the fire. \"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Fox 4. <\/p>\n<p>According to LCSO, Gomez has a criminal history including burglary and criminal mischief. <\/p>\n<p>The State Attorney&#8217;s Office will determined if Gomez will be charged as an adult. <\/p>\n<p>He was booked and released from jail, according to jail records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. \u2014 The Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said a 14-year-old boy attempted to kill four people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[54981,692,1637,209,211,210,22826,265,855,356,2094,22827,266],"class_list":["post-107175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-14-years-old","tag-arrest","tag-arson","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-carmine-marceno","tag-crime","tag-fire","tag-lee-county","tag-lee-county-sheriffs-office","tag-lehigh-acres-florida","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}