{"id":111401,"date":"2026-01-09T04:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T04:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/111401\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T04:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T04:58:12","slug":"man-in-fort-myers-police-custody-dies-after-apparent-self-injury-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/111401\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in Fort Myers police custody dies after apparent self injury, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT MYERS, Fla. \u2014 A man in custody has died following an apparent self-inflicted injury earlier this month, according to the Fort Myers Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>According to a press release from the department, the incident happened on Sunday, January 4, 2026, while the person was being held in police custody at the Fort Myers Police Department. <\/p>\n<p>The report from police says officers immediately began life-saving efforts, including CPR and the use of an automated external defibrillator, until Lee County EMS arrived. <\/p>\n<p>The man was taken to a hospital for medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Despite those efforts, police say the man died at the hospital on January 6. <br \/>The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is serving as the lead investigative agency. No further information has been released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla. \u2014 A man in custody has died following an apparent self-inflicted injury earlier this month,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":{"0":"post-111401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cape-coral","8":"tag-cape-coral","9":"tag-cape-coral-headlines","10":"tag-cape-coral-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111401","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=111401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}