5 teens dead after car found submerged

in Fort Myers, Florida; 4 had just ended

work shift
Stacey Henson, Fort Myers News-Press
Tue, June 27, 2023, 7:06 PM GMT+8·3 min read
FORT MYERS, Fla. − Five teens were killed Sunday in a crash after their
shift at a Texas Roadhouse restaurant in Florida ended.
Fort Myers police confirmed Monday morning that five teens were found in
a car submerged in a retention pond near Topgolf have died. The Fort
Myers Texas Roadhouse location confirmed that four employees died and
plan to have a memorial in the coming days. A note on the door indicated
the steakhouse was closed Monday.
A fifth person, as of yet not publicly identified, was also in the car.
According to Kristen Capuzzi, department spokeswoman, sometime
overnight between 10:30 p.m. Sunday and early Monday, a car crashed
into a retention pond and was submerged.
The Fort Myers Police Department and Lee County Sheriff’s Office recovered a small black Kia sedan,
shown on Monday, June 26, 2023. Five bodies were found in the vehicle, which was submerged in a
retention pond near Topgolf.
She said the teens, all 18 or 19 years old, apparently lost control of a small,
black Kia sedan near Topgolf and Interstate 75.
"It took a long time to get it out," Capuzzi said of the car Tuesday
afternoon. The five were declared dead at the scene.
A Texas Roadhouse Snapchat post identified the co-workers as Amanda
Ferguson, Eric Paul, Breanna Coleman and Jackson Eyre. It did not list the
fifth person.
People have started leaving flowers at the site of a crash along Topgolf Way in Fort Myers after five
people, at least four of them workers at nearby Texas Roadhouse, crashed late Sunday, June 25, 2023.
Photos of four Fort Myers Texas Roadhouse employees who drowned in a nearby retention pond are on
display at the steakhouse on Monday, June 26, 2023. A company post identified them as Amanda
Ferguson, Eric Paul, Breanna Coleman and Jackson Eyre. A fifth person, who has not been identified,
also died.
Jackson Eyre graduated from South Fort Myers High School this spring. He
was set to attend Fort Myers Technical College in the fall.
Bonita Springs High School Assistant Principal Rachel Eyre, Jackson’s
mother, had tweeted out a photo Sunday thanking Texas Roadhouse for
gifting her son with a portrait of himself and a to-go mug with his name
emblazoned on it as a graduation gift.

Texas Roadhouse closed as families gather

By 3 p.m. Monday, what appeared to be co-workers, friends and family
gathered at the entrance to the restaurant, about 25 cars in the parking lot,
with some sitting on benches near the door. A steady group of 10 or so
people milled about as others brought flowers − roses, gerbera daisies, and
mixed flowers −and dropped them off near photos of their deceased co-
workers.
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