{"id":438622,"date":"2026-01-30T09:47:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T09:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/438622\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T09:47:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T09:47:20","slug":"death-investigation-underway-on-hough-street-in-fort-myers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/438622\/","title":{"rendered":"Death investigation underway on Hough Street in Fort Myers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIT&#8217;S A WILD WEATHER RIDE WILL TAKE IT FOR YOU COMING UP IN JUST A BIT. &gt;&gt; NOW TO BREAKING NEWS. POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A DEATH NEAR DOWNTOWN FORT MYERS AND HALF AND 3RD STREET GULF COAST NEWS REPORTER ANDREW FRANCO IS THERE LIVE RIGHT NOW. AND DO YOU KNOW? &gt;&gt; HERE ON THE STREET, YOU CAN SEE CRIME SCENE TAPE HAS THE AREA CLOSED. FORT MYERS POLICE OFFICERS ARE INVESTIGATING. THEY ARE CALLING THIS A DEATH INVESTIGATION. HERE. YOU CAN SEE WE&#8217;VE LEAST 10 UNITS HERE INVESTIGATING ON THE SCENE ON HALF AND 3RD STREET NEAR DOWNTOWN FORT MYERS ARE WAITING TO GET MORE DETAILS ON WHAT EXACTLY IS THE STAFF INVESTIGATIONS HE CAN COUNT ON GULF COAST NEWS TO LET YOU KNOW, ONCE WE RECEIVE MORE INFORMATION. BUT RIGHT NOW THERE IS AN ACTIVE DEATH INVESTIGATION ON HALF STREET NEAR DOWNTOW\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Death investigation underway on Hough Street in Fort Myers<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768654837_683_gcnn.png\" class=\"lazyload lazyload-in-view branding\" alt=\"Gulf Coast News logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tUpdated: 9:51 PM EST Jan 29, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gulfcoastnewsnow.com\/article\/hearst-television-news-policy-statements\/14471973\" class=\"editorial-standards border-left\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA death investigation is underway on Hough Street near Third Street in Fort Myers Thursday.The Fort Myers Police Department said this is an active investigation. The cause of death will be determined by the medical examiner, police say.Gulf Coast News was at the scene and saw at least 10 units in the area.This is a developing story and will be updated.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<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tFORT MYERS, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A death investigation is underway on Hough Street near Third Street in Fort Myers Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Fort Myers Police Department said this is an active investigation. The cause of death will be determined by the medical examiner, police say.<\/p>\n<p>Gulf Coast News was at the scene and saw at least 10 units in the area.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/p>\n<p>DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/qrco.de\/gcnapp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gulf 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylocal.com\/wbbh-ft-myers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Very Local Gulf Coast app<\/a> to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IT&#8217;S A WILD WEATHER RIDE WILL TAKE IT FOR YOU COMING UP IN JUST A BIT. &gt;&gt; NOW&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[63808,43547,4,450,37431,14138,88,62263,51235,451,207079,16641,84814,3,98535,8293,1079,73686,452,453,2986],"class_list":["post-438622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-active-investigation","tag-alert","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-cause","tag-death-investigation","tag-entertainment","tag-fort-myers","tag-gulf-coast-news-app","tag-headlines","tag-hough-street","tag-late-news","tag-medical-examiner","tag-news","tag-original-programming","tag-phone","tag-sport","tag-tablet","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}