Are crimes in Southwest Florida going unpunished?

SOUTH FORT MYERS, Fla. There are cupcakes, balloons and gifts scattered around. Everything needed for an anniversary celebration.

Kayla Stone and Eddie Powell’s one year old son is even there to celebrate with his Daddy. But it’s not a typical celebration. It’s happening at a cemetery.

Powell was Stones’s high school sweetheart, and by age of 20 the two were expecting their first child.

“Everyone called him Chico, so now we call our son ‘Little Chico’,” she said. But Chico never had a chance to meet Little Chico. On May 15, 2016 he was shot while leaving the Hookah Lounge nightclub near Island Park Road in south Fort Myers.

Stone got a call close to four in the morning urging her to come to the hospital. She said witnesses and paramedics could hear Powell yelling “don’t let me die, my son is about to be born”.

When she got to the hospital he was in surgery, but he didn’t make it through and she never got to say goodbye.

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