Neighbors "Saddened, But Not Surprised"

"NAPLES MANOR, FL - Two people were dead. Then it was only one.

"On Saturday afternoon, the Collier County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that two people were dead in a murder-suicide following a shooting at a home on Holland Street in Naples Manor. But a few hours later, a Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman said that the incident had suddenly switched to a murder and attempted suicide investigation.

"However, Natalie Felber could not release other details, citing an ongoing death investigation. She did confirm that the second person involved was not dead as originally believed.

"Felber also said that arrests have not been made yet and that deputies were still at the scene.

"Hours prior to the agency’s confusion over whether two people were dead or one, police scanner traffic indicated that deputies had been told that a man was going to kill a woman.

"Yellow crime scene tape stretched across a white stucco fence in front of the circular drive at the corner of Holland Street and Georgia Avenue. The address on the mailbox was 5249 Holland Street.

"The Sheriff’s Office’s SWAT team surrounded the home after a call came in around 3:30 Saturday afternoon of shots fired.

"According to police scanner traffic, a neighbor called in after hearing five shots and a woman screaming.

"Officers were heard to be staging their operations at Georgia Avenue and Holland Street before they moved to Georgia Avenue and Warren Street, according to the scanner.

"Dominic Heiston and his grandmother Diane Heiston had been riding their bikes through the community when they came across the scene at about 4:30.

"They watched it unfold well into the evening and said about two hours passed before law enforcement went into the house. They watched as a woman was taken from the home on a stretcher.

"Having heard that there appeared to have been a murder-suicide, the two were saddened but not surprised.

"`The Manor already has a bad name,` said Dominic Heiston, a 14-year-old Lely High School student. `I don’t think it even makes a difference on the image of this place. But my dad said it’s gotten better and then something like this happens. … It’s crazy. It really is.`"

From naplesnews.com...