Suspect in Lehigh Acres shooting death taken into custody

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Imari Ranisha Colon. Photo via the Lee County Sheriff’s Office.
Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers also released a second photo of Imari Colon

LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. One of Southwest Florida’s most wanted was taken into custody Tuesday afternoon.

Imari Ranisha Colon, 25, will face a charge of second-degree murder with a firearm, Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers said. She’s accused of fatally shooting 45-year-old Derrick Henderson last week on the 800 block of Alido Avenue in Lehigh Acres.

Colon was apprehended downtown just over an hour after Crime Stoppers added her to its 10 Most Wanted list. Detectives with the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Warrants Task Force and the Lee County Sheriff’s Office worked to track her down, Crime Stoppers said.

She’s being booked into the Lee County Jail, where she will be held without bond, Crime Stoppers said.

Colon has previous arrests in Lee County for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and, most recently, for the sale and delivery of cocaine and marijuana.

Lee County Undersheriff Carmine Marceno expressed confidence she would be taken into custody hours before she was apprehended.

“We are confident that there are people in our community who know what happened, and are possibly harboring Colon,” Marceno said.  “Make no doubt about it. Our detectives will find Colon, and if anyone is helping her evade justice, they too will be charged accordingly.”

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