GATEWAY, Fla. (WINK) \u2014\u00a0 A tense armed standoff at a Lee County home ended peacefully with one person in custody.<\/p>\n
The Lee County Sheriff’s Office said deputies responded to a residence on Country Day Circle at around 4:54 a.m. Thursday, July 10, after a young person called 911 to report a physical disturbance inside the home.<\/p>\n
Through that call, deputies learned that 43-year-old\u00a0Raymond Michael Rhodes physically attacked a woman, armed himself with a firearm and was threatening to kill her before taking his own life.<\/p>\n
Deputies from the 5th Precinct arrived within minutes and got two people out of the home safely, but quickly discovered a 1-year-old child was still inside.<\/p>\n
As deputies tried to make contact, Rhodes came out of the garage holding a camouflage-colored shotgun and pointed it directly at them.<\/p>\n
Fearing for the child’s life, deputies entered the home, reached the toddler and handed the child through a bedroom window to deputies waiting outside.<\/p>\n
After a hours-long standoff, deputies took the suspect into custody without further issues.<\/p>\n
“This incident could have ended in tragedy, but because of the courage, discipline and exceptional training of our deputies, three lives were saved today,” Sheriff Carmine Marceno said.<\/p>\n
Marceno also credited the communications team, saying they “remained calm and gathered critical information from the very first 911 call.”<\/p>\n
Rhodes now faces charges including assault on a law enforcement officer, assault, false imprisonment and battery.<\/p>\n
Detectives later recovered the shotgun along with additional firearms and ammunition from inside the home, and Rhodes remains in the Lee County Jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GATEWAY, Fla. (WINK) \u2014\u00a0 A tense armed standoff at a Lee County home ended peacefully with one person…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,325,115],"class_list":["post-337547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-lee","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337547","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=337547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}