Oct. 17, 2015, is a date that many in Fort Myers will never forget. It marks the 10th anniversary of the tragic mass shooting that took place during Zombicon, a popular outdoor event in downtown Fort Myers.<\/p>\n
Thousands gathered in costume for a night of music and fun, but the evening turned into chaos when shots were fired. The incident left five people injured and claimed the life of 20-year-old Expavious Tyrell Taylor.<\/p>\n
WINK News spoke with Trish Routte from Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers about the case. Routte emphasized the importance of community cooperation and anonymous tips in leading to an arrest.<\/p>\n
“It was chaos downtown. You had literally thousands of people downtown for Zombicon. Everybody was masked up. They had the fake blood on and you had a mass shooting. People were just going in every which direction,” said Routte.<\/p>\n
“It was clear from that very first night that it was going to take a partnership, a community partnership, to help solve this case. And that’s exactly what happened,” said Routte.<\/p>\n
The shooter, Jose Bonilla, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for murder.<\/p>\n
This tragic event remains a somber memory for the community, highlighting the importance of unity in the face of adversity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct. 17, 2015, is a date that many in Fort Myers will never forget. It marks the 10th…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,3837,325],"class_list":["post-9330","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-collaborator_gen_stories","tag-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9330","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=9330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}