{"id":354133,"date":"2026-07-27T21:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T21:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/354133\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T21:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T21:01:08","slug":"fort-myers-man-in-jail-after-deadly-shooting-at-winkler-ave-apartments-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/354133\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Myers man in jail after deadly shooting at Winkler Ave. apartments | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK)\u2014A man is in 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+Jail\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lee County Jail<\/a> charged with second-degree murder after a deadly shooting at a Fort Myers apartment complex.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Fort Myers police identified the suspect as 26-year-old Willian Rosa Do&#8217;Amaral. Investigators said he surrendered to Lee County deputies and faces a second-degree murder charge.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Police said the victim and the suspect knew each other, and they believe this was an isolated incident.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Officers responded to the 2800 block of Winkler Avenue just before 8 a.m. after getting reports of gunshots. When they arrived, they found an adult victim who had died from an apparent gunshot wound.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Throughout the day, detectives processed the scene at Village Creek Apartments as neighbors and family members watched from behind police tape. Under Marsy&#8217;s Law, police are not releasing the victim&#8217;s identity.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A family friend told WINK News the victim is a woman. Neighbors said this is a devastating situation.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;I just hope they find out, you know, a resolution. All that. It&#8217;s just sad that somebody had to pass,&#8221; neighbor Mike McMahon said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Fort Myers police said their investigation remains active. They&#8217;re asking anyone with additional information about the shooting to contact them or <a href=\"https:\/\/southwestfloridacrimestoppers.com\/sitemenu.aspx?ID=104&amp;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK)\u2014A man is in the Lee County Jail charged with second-degree murder after a deadly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,325,115],"class_list":["post-354133","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\/354133","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=354133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}