{"id":51998,"date":"2025-11-19T00:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T00:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/51998\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T00:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T00:39:09","slug":"deadly-shooting-of-54-year-old-man-outside-cape-coral-tj-maxx-remains-unsolved-after-11-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/51998\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly shooting of 54-year-old man outside Cape Coral TJ Maxx remains unsolved after 11 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deadly shooting of 54-year-old man outside Cape Coral TJ Maxx remains unsolved after 11 years<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tUpdated: 1:13 PM EST Nov 18, 2025\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSouthwest Florida Crime Stoppers is asking for the public’s help in solving a Cape Coral cold case more than a decade old.On Nov. 18, 2014, 54-year-old Al Griffiths was sitting outside a TJ Maxx in Cape Coral. During his smoke break, Griffiths was approached by an unknown man and shot multiple times, at least once in the head.Eleven years later, the investigation is still active, with Griffiths’ death determined to be a homicide.If you have information in this case, you are asked to contact Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers at 1-800-780-TIPS (8477), on the P3 app, or on its website. You can remain anonymous, and if your tip leads to an arrest, you may be eligible for a cash reward of up to $5,000.DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202fGulf Coast News app\u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the Very Local Gulf Coast app to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers is asking for the public’s help in solving a Cape Coral cold case more than a decade old.<\/p>\n

On Nov. 18, 2014, 54-year-old Al Griffiths was sitting outside a TJ Maxx in Cape Coral. During his smoke break, Griffiths was approached by an unknown man and shot multiple times, at least once in the head.<\/p>\n

Eleven years later, the investigation is still active, with Griffiths’ death determined to be a homicide.<\/p>\n

If you have information in this case, you are asked to contact Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers at 1-800-780-TIPS (8477), on the P3 app, or on its website<\/a>. You can remain anonymous, and if your tip leads to an arrest, you may be eligible for a cash reward of up to $5,000.<\/p>\n

DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202fGulf Coast News app<\/a>\u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the Very Local Gulf Coast app<\/a> to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deadly shooting of 54-year-old man outside Cape Coral TJ Maxx remains unsolved after 11 years Updated: 1:13 PM…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[32788,1185,209,32787,211,210,32785,14050,104,32786,1179,213,4428,32789,1228,197,221,164],"class_list":["post-51998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-54-year-old-man","tag-alert","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-cold-case","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-cape-coral-tj-maxx","tag-deadly-shooting","tag-entertainment","tag-griffiths","tag-gulf-coast-news-app","tag-late-news","tag-phone","tag-smoke-break","tag-southwest-florida-crime-stoppers","tag-sport","tag-weather","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51998","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=51998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}