Deputies ID Lehigh homicide victim

The Lee County Sheriff's Office has identified the man killed at a Lehigh Acres home.

Deputies say they are investigating the death of Alexavier Chaz Jennings, 22, as a homicide.

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The sound of gunfire cut into Doug Hahl's TV viewing Wednesday night.

It sounded like a "pop," the 65-year-old Hahl said.

About a half-hour later, Hahl said he heard sirens. Still he didn't realize they were headed toward the small block of John Avenue South that he has called his home for three years in Lehigh Acres.

"I started seeing all the reflected lights shooting through the windows," Hahl said.

When he stepped outside and walked to the end of the driveway, Hahl said he saw a red car and behind it was a body on the ground.

"It was toes up," Hahl said.

Hahl said a second person appeared to be injured. He said he's never seen the red car in his neighborhood before.

Ken Craft, assistant fire chief for the Lehigh Acres Fire Control and Fire District, said one person was transported to Lee Memorial Hospital as a trauma alert.

The Lee County Sheriff's Office has not released any details on the shooting and is calling it a death investigation. According to information from the sheriff's office, deputies were called in to check on a suspicious person in the area at around 10:07 p.m.

The victim's identity has not been released.

Detectives are now investigating and asking anyone with information to come forward and call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-780-8477. Callers are eligible for a cash reward up to $1,000.

Sheriff's patrol cars drove in and out of the block that abuts the Westminster Golf Community. A fence separates the expansive golfing community from the modest homes on John Avenue South. Overgrown vegetation hangs over the duplexes on the block.

Hahl watched during the day as K-9 units came and went sniffing the ground for evidence. This is the first time he has seen a shooting take place at his doorstep.

Alyssa Hall, who lives a few empty lots away from where the shooting occurred, said she didn't hear anything last night, but she's felt unsafe in her home for some time.

She's planning a move soon.

"We've been robbed, we've had people break into our house," Hall, 25, said. "There's home invasions all the time."

"We just stay in the house. We don't leave."