9-month-old held hostage inside North Fort Myers home, suspect in custody

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The Lee Sheriff’s Office was on the scene of a barricaded subject with a baby near Park Lane Drive and Euclid Avenue in North Fort Myers.

Around 5 a.m. Friday, deputies responded to a home for a “domestic altercation” between a man and a woman.

The suspect was later identified as 31-year-old Christopher Watson.

Watson barricaded himself in the home with a 9-month-old boy.

Sheriff Carmine Marceno said in a news conference, “Hostage negotiation and SWAT setup. Negotiations began with that subject, and during that course of the negotiations, many, many times that subject threatened to kill himself and basically drop a 9-month-old on his head.”

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