Fort Myers police Officer Adam Jobbers-Miller died Saturday at Lee Memorial Hospital, a week after he was shot in the head while trying to apprehend a fleeing suspect. 

Capt. Jay Rodriguez, when asked about Jobbers-Miller’s condition and about a number of police cars that had suddenly raced to the hospital around 6 p.m., said simply, “We lost him.”

“It is with a heavy heart that we inform our community that Fort Myers Police Officer Adam Jobbers-Miller has passed away,” FMPD spokesman Mitch Haley wrote in an email release.  “We ask that you continue to pray for Officer Jobbers-Miller’s family, friends and our entire Fort Myers Police Department family.” 

Jobbers-Miller had been in critical condition since Saturday night when he was wounded chasing Wisner Desmaret, a suspect in the reported theft of a cellphone from a car at the at service station.

Jobbers-Miller, 29, has been a Fort Myers police officer since Sept. 2015. Desmaret was also injured and remains hospitalized.