{"id":15640,"date":"2025-11-18T16:22:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T23:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cause-of-death-released-for-former-womens-resource-center-director\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:49:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:49:03","slug":"cause-of-death-released-for-former-womens-resource-center-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cause-of-death-released-for-former-womens-resource-center-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Cause of death released for former Women\u2019s Resource Center director"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former Women\u2019s Resource Center Executive Director Tammy Tyner died by suicide, according to the La Plata County Coroner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of death was a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Coroner Jann Smith told <em id=\"emphasis-30168c420c875c7f60a2002a34a6e731\">The Durango Herald. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=79559bea-1e17-5281-b68f-b7eca1362ae3&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"198\" height=\"198\" alt=\"Tyner\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Tyner<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Tyner, a longtime La Plata County resident, was found dead early Nov. 12, according to the Coroner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>The Sheriff\u2019s Office was notified about 6:40 a.m., said sheriff\u2019s spokesman Chris Burke. Tyner\u2019s body was found at the Vallecito Creek Trailhead in the 2700 block of County Road 500.<\/p>\n<p>Tyner worked at the Women\u2019s Resource Center for nine years until Nov. 6. Her departure from the position was announced the same day in an email to donors and sponsors.<\/p>\n<div class=\"naviga-scoreboard\">\n<h4 class=\"scoreboard-title\">For help<\/h4>\n<p>Help for people having suicidal thoughts or for those who fear a person is considering suicide:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Axis Care Hotline<\/strong>:24\/7 local response to your crisis &amp; behavioral health needs: 247-5245<\/p>\n<p><strong>NATIONAL SUICIDE PREVENTION HOTLINE<\/strong>:988<\/p>\n<p><strong>RED NACIONAL DE PREVENCI\u00d3N DEL SUICIDIO<\/strong>:988<\/p>\n<p><strong>FORT LEWIS COLLEGE COUNSELING CENTER<\/strong>:247-7212<\/p>\n<p><strong>BOYS TOWN HOTLINE<\/strong>:(800) 448-3000.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SAFE2TELL COLORADO<\/strong>:(877) 542-7233 or safe2tell.org<\/p>\n<p><strong>COLORADO CRISIS SUPPORT LINE<\/strong>:(844) 493-8255 or text \u201cTALK\u201d to 38255 or online at coloradocrisisservices.org to access a live chat available in 17 languages. The line has mental-health professionals available to talk to adults or youths 24 hours a day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION<\/strong>:Colorado chapter information available at afsp.org\/chapter\/afsp-colorado\/<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR MEN<\/strong>:A website for adult men contemplating suicide is available at mantherapy.org<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Women\u2019s Resource Center board of directors declined to give a reason for Tyner\u2019s departure from the nonprofit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, we are not able to comment on any personnel decisions made between the board and Tammy at any time,\u201d Board President Ashley Truitt wrote in an email to the <em id=\"emphasis-e1e78de546093981e5e9f7ab3760bd7d\">Herald<\/em> on Tuesday. \u201cAfter working with Tammy we are all personally devastated and heartbroken at this loss.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tyner\u2019s daughter, Kaylee Schulz, declined to comment for this story.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-three people have died by suicide this year in La Plata County, Smith said.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-a2a64dc3a63a612026b7d804467a74ba\"><a href=\"mailto:epond@durangoherald.com\">epond@durangoherald.com<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>was found dead last week near Vallecito<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[255,28,1269,955],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-15640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-death-and-dying","tag-headlines","tag-nonprofits","tag-suicide"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15640","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=15640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19763,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15640\/revisions\/19763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15640"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=15640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}