{"id":226480,"date":"2026-04-10T16:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T16:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/226480\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T16:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T16:17:07","slug":"fl-woman-beat-to-death-with-hammer-man-charged-feds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/226480\/","title":{"rendered":"FL Woman Beat To Death With Hammer; Man Charged: Feds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: This article hyperlinks to a brief video clip that is graphic and sensitive in nature.<\/p>\n<p>FORT MYERS, FL \u2014 A Haitian national is facing homicide charges in connection with the beating death of a store clerk this week in Fort Myers, according to federal immigration authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Officers on Tuesday arrested Rolbert Joachin after authorities said the 40-year-old approached the clerk, who is a mother, and hit her in the head several times on April 3 at a gas station. <\/p>\n<p>This was after he was accused of smashing her car windshield, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n<p>Sometime after, Fort Myers Police and agents with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement located Joachin on Mango Street, where he was arrested, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Lee County Jail records on Friday showed Joachin is facing charges of homicide and criminal mischief damage to property $1,000-plus. A bond had not been set as of early Friday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116377422440266990\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">President Donald Trump<\/a> on Thursday released video surveillance in connection with the incident on his Truth Social account. The graphic 20-second clip appears to show a man attacking a woman in a parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The video of her brutal slaying is one of the most vicious things you will ever see,&#8221; Trump said in the post. &#8221; &#8230; Please say a prayer for this innocent woman\u2019s family. We will ensure quick and severe JUSTICE is served in this case!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> No matter the outcome of the case, Homeland Security authorities said Joachin will be deported as they have issued a detainer against him.<\/p>\n<p>Joachin first came to the U.S. in August 2022, officials said. A federal judge ordered his removal that year, but officials said he was granted temporary protected status under the Biden administration. The status expired in 2024, officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: This article hyperlinks to a brief video clip that is graphic and sensitive in nature. FORT&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-226480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226480","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=226480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}