The Fort Myers Police Department was among the agencies that responded to the crash and assisted with recovery efforts.<\/p>\n
FORT MYERS POLICE DEPARTMENT<\/p>\n
The body of a boater who was missing following a deadly crash in the river near the Cape Coral Yacht Club Saturday was recovered Sunday afternoon with officials releasing the names of the three individuals who died as a result of the incident.<\/p>\n
The missing boater has been identified as Craig Millett, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Communications Office said via email Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cBrenna Millett and Rebecca Knight were the two declared deceased at the hospital last night,\u201d the email states. \u201cThe fourth person involved was Neal Kirby who is in critical but stable condition.\u201d<\/p>\n
The FWC investigation is continuing.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe still don\u2019t have a cause on the incident at this time but our investigators are working diligently to find that information out,\u201d Public Information Officer Bradley Johnson stated.<\/p>\n
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Cape Coral Police Department, Cape Coral Fire Department, Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office, and Lee County EMS all responded to the scene of the incident on the Caloosahatchee River and continued to assist with the recovery of the missing boater through Sunday.<\/p>\n
The crash occurred at approximately 5 p.m. on Saturday, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said.<\/p>\n
\u201cPreliminary information indicates that a single vessel with four occupants onboard, was traveling on the river near the Cape Coral Yacht Club when an incident occurred. Three of the occupants of the vessel were transported to a nearby hospital,\u201d the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission stated in a press release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fort Myers Police Department was among the agencies that responded to the crash and assisted with recovery…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-67725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67725","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=67725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}