{"id":81238,"date":"2026-09-21T22:50:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T02:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=81238"},"modified":"2026-09-21T23:37:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T03:37:58","slug":"pt-5-i-trusted-you-as-a-friend-you-betrayed-my-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2026\/09\/21\/pt-5-i-trusted-you-as-a-friend-you-betrayed-my-trust\/","title":{"rendered":"Pt 5: \u201cI trusted you as a friend … you betrayed my trust.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At today\u2019s Fort Myers City Council meeting, Kagan Vann addressed the man he said victimized him nearly two years ago. The mayor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Bob Norman<\/p>\n\n\n

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Kagan Vann, left, confronts Mayor Kevin Anderson, who watches on at right.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Roughly a dozen speakers provided often powerful testimony at tonight\u2019s city council meeting calling for Fort Myers\u2019 Mayor Kevin Anderson to resign following reporting in the Lighthouse regarding allegations of sexual misconduct by two young men. Two of those speakers were his accusers, 23-year-old Kagan Vann and 18-year-old Dominic Hendricks, who confronted the mayor directly during public comments as he looked on, at times, as in the photo above, frowning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is the entirety of Vann\u2019s statement, spoken directly to Anderson with emotion-laced conviction. Following the statement, you can read Anderson\u2019s hurried denial, followed by an abrupt adjournment and moments of shouting and chaos as police escorted the mayor from the room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vann\u2019s statement<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the record, my name is Kagan Vann.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kevin, we both know what went down November 21st, 2024. You know that we were friends. We met at the Luminary Hotel at Silver King [restaurant] on New Year\u2019s Eve. You said after our conversation about me being a food runner that if you ever had a son, you\u2019d want him to be exactly like me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I took that to heart. I trusted you as a friend, as someone who helped me not only with acting, but kind of motivated me to keep moving forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On November 21st, 2024, you betrayed my trust. You propositioned me for sex. You, on top of that, when I kept saying no, were being pushy and forceful. And then I happened to go away from the table to go to the bathroom. I came back and had a drink. While talking with you, you said, \u2018Here\u2019s what we\u2019re going to do. You\u2019re going to come with me over to the ATM, and I\u2019m going to pull out $200, and you\u2019re going to let me suck you off.\u2019 I just wanted to see if you deny that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or one of my favorite ones was, \u201cI watched you go from a young boy into the stud you are today.\u201d Imagine how fucking\u2014 excuse my language \u2014 imagine how awful it made me feel hearing this.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Vann addresses the mayor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

And when I went to get up, when the server came out and said, \u201cDo you want any more drinks?\u201d I said no multiple times, as my body was shutting down and you turned red in the face, and you\u2019re like, \u201cNo, he wants another one. No, he wants another one.\u201d Clearly I did not, if I went and walked away, and then I made it to Kava (bar) and collapsed. And that\u2019s when the EMS came to me. That\u2019s when the police got involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had someone come up to the table. I knew him from Kava bar beforehand because my friends saw those texts that you\u2019re sending me. And they\u2019re like, \u201cThe mayor\u2019s trying to F you, trying to have sex with you.\u201d And I\u2019m like, \u201cNo, no, no. He\u2019s a good guy. He\u2019s a good guy. I\u2019ve known him for years. He wouldn\u2019t do that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n