A Lee County Sheriff's Officer shot and wounded a man he encountered at a home on Illinois Drive in the Tice area near Fort Myers Wednesday morning.
Crime scene tape had a section of the 4500 block of Illinois cordoned off from Colorado Place to Dexter Drive.
At a media briefing at the scene of the shooting, a spokesman for the Sheriff's Office said deputies were called to the home shortly after 9 a.m. to check on a suicidal subject.
Public Information Officer Nestor Montoya said a deputy encountered a man in a room at the home who had a weapon and the man charged at him.