{"id":136797,"date":"2026-01-29T21:43:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T21:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/136797\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T21:43:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T21:43:06","slug":"police-conduct-death-investigation-on-hough-st-in-fort-myers-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/136797\/","title":{"rendered":"Police conduct death investigation on Hough St. in Fort Myers | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">FORT MYERS, Fla.\u2014The Fort Myers Police Department is on scene conducting an active death investigation on Hough Street near Third Street.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Police arrived around 3:50 p.m. on Thursday, and multiple units placed yellow crime scene tape around the perimeter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">WINK News has contacted the police department for more details on the scene.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">They confirmed that police are on scene conducting a death investigation, with the cause of death to be determined by a medical examiner.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It remains unclear who was involved in the scene or whether any arrests have occurred as a result of this investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">WINK News reporter Lauren Halpern is on the scene to gather more information.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Stay tuned to <a href=\"http:\/\/winknews.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WINKNews.com<\/a>, WINK News App, streaming, and on air for any new developments on this story.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Karsen is a Digital Specialist and has been with WINK News\u00a0since May 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla.\u2014The Fort Myers Police Department is on scene conducting an active death investigation on Hough Street&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,325],"class_list":{"0":"post-136797","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","11":"tag-lee"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136797","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=136797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}