{"id":330806,"date":"2026-07-06T15:57:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T15:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/330806\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T15:57:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T15:57:14","slug":"suspect-arrested-in-mcdonalds-parking-lot-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/330806\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect Arrested in McDonald&#8217;s Parking Lot Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1764950231_728_News-Release-Header-NEW-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"450\" title=\"\" role=\"img\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CAPE CORAL, Fla. \u2013 On Friday, July 3, 2026, at around 9 PM, with the help of the Fort Myers Police Department, \u00a0Jamar Maurice James Jr. (DOB 10\/27\/2006)\u00a0was located at Sky Zone Trampoline Park in Fort Myers, Florida and arrested on multiple charges related to a shooting in Cape Coral.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On June 2, 2026, at around 12:25 AM, officers with the Cape Coral Police Department were called to the McDonald\u2019s at 8 NE Pine Island Road, Cape Coral, Florida in reference to a disturbance involving a firearm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Witnesses told dispatchers there was a disturbance in the parking lot and an individual fired multiple gunshots from the front passenger seat of a black SUV that then fled the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officers on scene learned no one was injured. Officers spoke to several witnesses and reviewed videos which showed a man brandishing a handgun while in an argument with bystanders. The suspect was wearing a black mask, green camo hooded sweatshirt, light shorts, and black and white slides.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Detectives with the Violent Crimes Unit responded and reviewed surveillance video of the disturbance, which involved several young adults. During the disturbance, the male suspect who brandished a firearm was observed getting into the front passenger seat of a black\u00a0Chevrolet Suburban before firing multiple gunshots from within the vicinity of a crowd of onlookers. The vehicle then fled the area before law enforcement officers arrived on scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Forensics personnel processed the scene and collected evidence. Through the investigation, detectives identified the suspect as Jamar Maurice James Jr.\u00a0(DOB 10\/27\/2006). He was\u00a0arrested\u00a0on July 3 and taken to the Lee County Jail on the following charges:<\/p>\n<p>Discharging a Firearm in Public, 2nd Degree FelonyDisorderly Conduct, 2nd Degree Misdemeanor<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/NR-Mugshot-Template-27.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"uag-image-14935\" width=\"1640\" height=\"450\" title=\"NR Mugshot Template (27)\" role=\"img\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CORAL, Fla. \u2013 On Friday, July 3, 2026, at around 9 PM, with the help of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-330806","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\/330806","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=330806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}