{"id":8269,"date":"2025-10-17T14:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T14:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/8269\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T14:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T14:03:10","slug":"cape-coral-murder-suspect-transferred-back-to-lee-county-booked-into-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/8269\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Coral murder suspect transferred back to Lee County, booked into jail"},"content":{"rendered":"

CAPE CORAL, Fla. \u2014 The man accused of stabbing his mother to death in Cape Coral is back in Lee County. <\/p>\n

Devin Johnson was being held in the Collier County Jail after deputies say he committed several crimes there shortly after the murder. <\/p>\n

The Cape Coral Police Department said Rosemary Johnson, 69, was found dead in her Cape Coral home on Sept. 16, and Devin is charged with second-degree murder. <\/p>\n

The investigation started at a home on Jacaranda Parkway and NW 45th Place.<\/p>\n

Cape Coral Police Chief Sizemore said Rosemary’s family couldn’t get ahold of their mother, so they went to her house.<\/p>\n

Inside, Rosemary’s daughter told Fox 4 she discovered her mother’s body. Sizemore said the family also found bloody foot prints inside.<\/p>\n

Johnson is accused of fleeing the scene, and was eventually arrested in Collier County<\/a> after a fight with deputies.<\/p>\n

His additional charges include fleeing law enforcement, resisting arrest, battery, attempting to take a law enforcement officer’s firearm, animal cruelty and a traffic misdemeanor.<\/p>\n

Detectives said they processed Devin’s vehicle he took off in. They found blood inside, outside and on Devin’s shoes, Sizemore said.<\/p>\n

Investigators said evidence shows that Devin Johnson also purchased a plane ticket to Costa Rica after the stabbing with plans to leave on Sept. 17, the day after the murder.<\/p>\n

Johnson’s family tells police that he has a documented history of substance abuse and domestic violence.<\/p>\n

Fox 4 has learned Johnson was previously arrested for attacking his mother, according to court documents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CORAL, Fla. \u2014 The man accused of stabbing his mother to death in Cape Coral is back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[692,209,263,211,210,212,5926,1071,7438,264,266,1961,8517],"class_list":["post-8269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-arrest","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-florida","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-cape-coral-police","tag-collier-county","tag-deputies","tag-devin-johnson","tag-fox-4","tag-local-news","tag-mother","tag-rosemary-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8269","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=8269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}