{"id":102189,"date":"2017-12-30T19:22:17","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T02:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/police-investigating-shooting-near-ignacio\/"},"modified":"2017-12-30T19:22:17","modified_gmt":"2017-12-31T02:22:17","slug":"police-investigating-shooting-near-ignacio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/police-investigating-shooting-near-ignacio\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigating shooting near Ignacio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=ad3fc61a-6ab7-473d-9ad9-9b81910aec28&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=ad3fc61a-6ab7-473d-9ad9-9b81910aec28&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=ad3fc61a-6ab7-473d-9ad9-9b81910aec28&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=ad3fc61a-6ab7-473d-9ad9-9b81910aec28&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"831\" height=\"467\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Law enforcement was investigating a shooting involving at least two victims and several suspects late Thursday in the Ignacio area.<\/p>\n<p>Two victims were dropped off about 8:30 p.m. at Mercy Regional Medical Center, which notified law enforcement of the incident, said Sgt. Steve Reiter, with the La Plata County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>The extent of their injuries was not immediately known; both victims were alive when investigators visited the hospital Thursday night, Reiter said.<\/p>\n<p>Police identified \u201cseveral suspects\u201d in the Ignacio area and were not looking for additional suspects as of 11:15 p.m., he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not pursuing any suspects or anything at this time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mercy\u2019s emergency department issued \u201ccontrolled access procedures\u201d for about one hour after the incident, according to an email from hospital spokesman David Bruzzese. He did not explain what emergency access procedures entail.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple agencies were investigating the shootings, including the Sheriff\u2019s Office and the Southern Ute Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>The shootings occurred near Ignacio outside town limits, Reiter said.<\/p>\n<p>He could not speak to a possible motive, including whether the suspects and victims knew each other.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:shane@durangoherald.com\">shane@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>victims dropped off at Mercy Regional Medical Center<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":102190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[21,13],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-102189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102189"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=102189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}