East Naples man, 44, convicted of killing roommate in wooded area

A man accused of shooting his roommate in a wooded area near the East Naples home they shared in 2016 was convicted of manslaughter Thursday.

Kurt William L'Heureux, 44, faces up to 15 years in prison for killing Robert Charles Guyette when he is sentenced in March, according to a release from the State Attorney's Office.

According to court records, L'Heureux and Guyette shared a home on Jeepers Drive with two other people and had a volatile relationship that regularly ended in drunken fights. 

A friend of Guyette's reported him missing to the Collier County Sheriff's Office when she hadn't heard from him for several days, court records state.

Guyette left his home about 9 p.m. Feb. 19, 2016, to complete a demolition job in Naples Manor in East Naples, records state. The jobs was supposed to take only an hour, records say, but he never returned.

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On March 8, 2016, Guyette's body was found in a wooded area less than 1½ miles from where he lived.

Acquaintances of L'Heureux's told detectives the man talked about having access to a gun and kept bullets in the home, records state. Other acquaintances said L'Heureux confessed to them about luring Guyette to a wooded area and shooting him in the head, according to court records.

According to the State Attorney's Office release, there was no direct evidence of the killing, and no one saw it.

Prosecutors filed a second-degree murder charge, but the jury came back with a manslaughter charge, according to Samantha Syoen, spokeswoman for the State Attorney's Office.