{"id":391895,"date":"2026-09-06T04:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T04:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/391895\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T04:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T04:36:08","slug":"person-dies-after-officer-involved-shooting-on-katherine-street-in-fort-myers-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/391895\/","title":{"rendered":"Person dies after officer-involved shooting on Katherine Street in Fort Myers | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 A person died following an officer-involved shooting in Fort Myers on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Fort Myers Police Department received a call for service on Katherine Street around 5:48 a.m. According to the FMPD, the call led to an officer-involved shooting.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was transported to a local hospital, where police say they later died.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is leading the investigation into the officer-involved shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Per department policy, the involved officer or officers have been placed on paid administrative leave while the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to <a href=\"http:\/\/WINKNews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WINKNews.com<\/a>, WINK News App, streaming, and on-air for any new developments on this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 A person died following an officer-involved shooting in Fort Myers on Saturday. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,4860,16399],"class_list":["post-391895","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-florida-department-of-law-enforcement","tag-fort-myers-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391895","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=391895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}