{"id":347395,"date":"2026-07-21T15:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T15:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/347395\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T15:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T15:50:10","slug":"lee-memorial-blood-drive-honors-fort-myers-officer-killed-in-2018-shooting-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/347395\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Memorial blood drive honors Fort Myers officer killed in 2018 shooting | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 A blood drive is underway at Lee Memorial Hospital to honor a fallen Fort Myers police officer on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, Fort Myers Police Officer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/search\/?l=25&amp;s=start_time&amp;sd=desc&amp;f=html&amp;t=article%2Cvideo%2Cyoutube%2Ccollection&amp;app=editorial&amp;nsa=eedition&amp;q=Adam+Jobbers-Miller\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Adam Jobbers-Miller<\/a> was shot while investigating a robbery. He died a week later at 29 years old.<\/p>\n<p>A blood drive has been held in his honor every year since his death. The drive is taking place at Lee Memorial Hospital from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. through Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The director of the blood center spoke about the importance of donating blood.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a great way to honor Adam&#8217;s memory,&#8221; the director said.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the blood drive will continue at the Fort Myers Police Department during the same hours. Organizers say donating blood genuinely saves lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 A blood drive is underway at Lee Memorial Hospital to honor a fallen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,325,115],"class_list":["post-347395","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\/347395","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=347395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}