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FORT MYERS, Fla. — Teachers and children from a preschool in the same plaza as the nightclub where two were killed and 18 were injured this week made a touching contribution to a growing memorial at the site, but the shooting has hurt the school’s enrollment. A poster with handprints from the children that reads […]

FORT MYERS, Fla. – The family of 14-year-old Wadlin Dieu-Juste has filed the seventh lawsuit against Club Blu. The teen was hit by bullets in the stomach and hand when at least one gunman opened fire on a crowd of kids in the nightclub’s parking lot. Dieu-Juste was one of three people who remained in the […]

AVE MARIA, Fla. – Things can get really intense at Martial Arts Fitness Academy where Jason Gabauer offers a three-hour active shooter training course. After the Zombicon shooting, the class filled up, so he offered another. After the shooting at Pulse nightclub, demand grew even more. Then there was the mass shooting outside Club Blu. […]

FORT MYERS, Fla. — A new gang-supression unit has paid significant dividends, Fort Myers police chief Derrick Diggs said. Diggs cited the program for the recovery of 39 firearms, including five assault-type weapons, during September and October. All of the weapons are directly related to criminal investigations, and many were seized from documented gang members who […]

FORT MYERS, Fla. Nate Allen believes an audit highly critical of the Fort Myers Police Department should serve as a community wake-up call. Dennis Eads believes the report is a mix of truths, opinions and “sour apples.” Both men, one whose false arrest led to the other becoming police chief, are uniquely tied to the […]

LEHIGH ACRES, Fla – Hundreds of people gathered to remember the life of 18-year-old Stef’an Strawder. Strawder was one of the victims in the Club Blu mass shooting on July 25. Strawder was remembered as a beloved basketball player for Lehigh Senior High School. On Saturday, his teammates dressed in white tuxes to honor their […]

FORT MYERS, Fla. — The two teenage boys who died in the Club Blu mass shooting are gone, but the impressions they made on those close to them are indelible. Two distinctly different wakes were held Friday in remembrance of 14-year-old Sean Archilles and 18-year-old Stef’an Strawder, with private funerals set for Saturday. Loud cries of […]

FORT MYERS, Fla. – Authorities are trying to piece together what led to the shooting at a Fort Myers nightclub. Trish Routte of Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers joined us in the studio with more on the investigation.

FORT MYERS, Fla. – One man says his ears continue to ring remembering the sounds of screams and gunshots outside Club Blu. “Just the screams and the sounds and the gunshots — that’s pretty much the only thing. It’s kind of getting better but at first, like the first couple of days it was really getting […]

FORT MYERS, Fla. – DJ Passaround said he had a terrible feeling when a performance was stopped at the end of a teen party at Club Blu early Monday morning. “When the show got stopped, in my mind — I’m shaking — ’cause I’m like ‘Oh my God. It’s now about to get real,” he […]