Update 12:57 pm
Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno says a deputy shot a woman Friday morning at about 11 am, during a traffic stop near the intersection of Boy Scout Dr and U.S. 41.<\/p>\n
Sheriff Marceno says the deputy tried to pull the woman over, because she had a felony warrant for her arrest. He says the woman tried to drive off and the deputy fired one round, hitting the woman in her elbow.<\/p>\n
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Fox 4<\/p>\n
Lee County Sheriff’s Office investigators on the scene of a deputy shooting on Friday afternoon<\/p>\n
Sheriff Marceno says the woman drove herself to the hospital and she is expected to be ok.<\/p>\n
The deputy will be placed on leave during the investigation, per department policy.<\/p>\n
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FDOT<\/p>\n
The Lee County Sheriff’s Office is working an active scene in Fort Myers on Boy Scout Dr<\/p>\n
Update 12:16 pm
Sheriff Carmine Marceno is expected to give an update about the shooting at 12:45 pm. <\/p>\n
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Fox 4<\/p>\n
Lee County Crime Scene Investigators working an active scene on Boy Scout Dr on Friday<\/p>\n
Original Story
The Lee County Sheriff’s Office says it’s working an active scene in Fort Myers, near the intersection of Boy Scout Drive and U.S. 41.<\/p>\n
The sheriff’s office has not given any other information, except to say that the situation is contained. <\/p>\n
A worker at Sam Galloway Lincoln told Fox 4 there was a shooting in front of their business. She said the entrance to the business is blocked. <\/p>\n
One lane of traffic is moving on Boy Scout Drive.<\/p>\n
This is a breaking situation and we will update this article as soon as there is new information. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Update 12:57 pmLee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno says a deputy shot a woman Friday morning at about 11…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,899],"class_list":["post-55726","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-fort-myers-metro-south-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55726","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=55726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}