{"id":348796,"date":"2026-07-22T17:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T17:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/348796\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T17:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T17:15:08","slug":"17-month-old-found-dead-in-hot-car-in-lee-county-active-investigation-underway-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/348796\/","title":{"rendered":"17-month-old found dead in hot car in Lee County, active investigation underway | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">LEE COUNTY, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/search\/?f=html&amp;t=article%2Ccollection%2Cvideo%2Cyoutube&amp;s=start_time&amp;sd=desc&amp;l=25&amp;nsa=eedition&amp;q=Lee+County+Sheriff%E2%80%99s+Office\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/a> is conducting an active death investigation regarding a child who was found dead inside a hot car.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">On Tuesday at around 5 p.m., law enforcement responded to a report involving a deceased child in a hot car located on 7806 College Parkway.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">According to deputies, the child was a 17-month-old female.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This investigation remains ongoing while deputies work with their partners at the State Attorney\u2019s Office.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">WINK News reporter Damien Alvarado is in contact with the sheriff\u2019s office and will provide updates as they become available.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to <a class=\"x_ContentPasted0\" title=\"http:\/\/winknews.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/winknews.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-loopstyle=\"linkonly\" data-linkindex=\"0\" data-ogsc=\"\">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":"LEE COUNTY, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 The Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office is conducting an active death investigation regarding a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,325,115],"class_list":["post-348796","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\/348796","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=348796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}