{"id":357050,"date":"2026-07-30T02:08:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/357050\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T02:08:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:08:30","slug":"officer-involved-shooting-with-barricaded-fort-myers-man-leads-to-active-investigation-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/357050\/","title":{"rendered":"Officer-involved shooting with barricaded Fort Myers man leads to active investigation | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">FORT MYERS, 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=Fort+Myers+Police+Department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fort Myers Police Department<\/a> is working an active incident on Maravilla Avenue involving a barricaded man, which led to an officer-involved shooting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">At around 8 a.m. on Wednesday, Fort Myers police responded to a report of a disturbance involving a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>Police shut down part of Maravilla Avenue after gunshots were fired and a person barricaded themselves inside an apartment. A SWAT team and dozens of officers flooded the area.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators identified the man shot by police as 23-year-old Aaron Spencer. Fort Myers police say Spencer was inside the home when officers arrived.<\/p>\n<p>A second person was found dead before police entered. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is now leading the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The officers involved are on paid administrative leave. WINK News is still working to get the name of the second person who was found dead inside the home.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The scene remains active.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is leading the investigation.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 The Fort Myers Police Department is working an active incident on Maravilla Avenue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,3837,325,115],"class_list":["post-357050","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-collaborator_gen_stories","tag-lee","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357050","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=357050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}