The mother of a man murdered on Mother’s Day morning on one of Southwest Florida’s busiest bridges said her son was killed as a direct result of his name showing up in documents related to a 2016 mass shooting. Jadwin “JC” Carrion was found shot to death inside a vehicle on Cape Coral’s Midpoint Bridge […]
The WINK News investigative team connected the dots between a recent murder on the Midpoint Bridge in Cape Coral to the 2016 Club Blue shooting in Fort Myers. Just after midnight Saturday, May 10, Jadwin Lebronze Carrion, 24, was shot and killed on one of Southwest Florida’s busiest bridges. It turns out, Carrion is named […]
The motion to dismiss also said that the state has not provided testimony or physical evidence against Russ.
The motion further said that there was no evidence in the 10,000 pages of discovery or in audio and video recordings provided by the state that Russ, then 16, knew the shooting was to take place, that she fired a weapon then or any other time or took part in the crime.
The motion also cited Russ s lack of criminal record, that she has completed high school and was working in the health care industry when she was arrested.
Court documents show the five, arrested Dec. 8, 2020, communicated their intentions for hours before the mayhem that also left at least 14 others wounded, one seriously, at the Evans Avenue Club.
Water was on everyone s mind on a recent Dunbar morning.
Not just because renowned Southwest Florida water scientist Rae Ann Wessel had come to the I Will Mentorship Foundation s urban farm, but because the stuff was pouring from the sky, soaking the nonprofit s crops and hammering its tin roof.
After a decades-long environmental career, most recently with the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation, where she retired as its Natural Resources Policy Director, Wessel is poised to help others learn about what she loves: natural systems and the water that sustains them.
On this rainy morning, though, she settled for joining a handful of volunteers from Florida Gulf Coast University making wooden picnic tables under I Will’s pavilion.
Fort Myers community leader provides safe space, role model for kids
Published: February 18, 2021 11:33 PM EST
Updated: February 19, 2021 4:10 PM EST
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A community leader in Fort Myers made it his mission to provide a safe space for the youths around him. He began a program years ago to help raise the next generation of leaders, with a focus of his program to give children a much-needed role model.
But he almost ended his mission when he lost one of his program’s teens in the Club Blu shooting of 2016.
We learned why he kept it going and how he continues forward.