{"id":18420,"date":"2025-07-31T20:45:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T02:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/investigation-into-kp-pawn-and-sales-shooting-ongoing\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:04:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:04:38","slug":"investigation-into-kp-pawn-and-sales-shooting-ongoing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/investigation-into-kp-pawn-and-sales-shooting-ongoing\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation into KP Pawn and Sales shooting ongoing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=47af0140-3b9b-5e90-b23d-82b5903f0fd9&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1318\" alt=\"The Durango Police Department responded to KP Pawn &amp; Sales at 495 E. College Drive about 9:45 a.m. July 29 for a report of shots fired. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald file)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Durango Police Department responded to KP Pawn &amp; Sales at 495 E. College Drive about 9:45 a.m. July 29 for a report of shots fired. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald file)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Information remains scarce surrounding a shooting that occurred this week at KP Pawn and Sales.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting, which occurred around 9:45 a.m. Tuesday at 495 E. College Drive, left one person critically injured.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains ongoing as of Thursday, and there is no threat to the public, according to Durango Police Department Public Information Officer McKenzie Perdue.<\/p>\n<p>As of Thursday afternoon, those involved in the incident had not been identified, and the status of the critically injured person, who was transported to the hospital from the scene, had not yet been released.<\/p>\n<p>KP Pawn and Sales reopened Wednesday following a brief closure from the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re moving through the process as they would any open investigation,\u201d Perdue said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI seen all the cops flying by, and the ambulance,\u201d said Joe Esquibel, a longtime Fifth Avenue resident who was at his home down the street from KP Pawn and Sales at the time of the shooting. \u201cThis wasn\u2019t Durango 60 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call dispatch at 385-2900, the Durango Police investigation line at 375-4730 or email <a href=\"mailto:durangopolicepio@durangoco.gov\">durangopolicepio@durangoco.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-84f72f4fe5376d880a2bb12e58398076\">This article has been updated to reflect KP Pawn and Sales reopening to the public as of Wednesday. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-621827fb81734b5d17ded81d09a6816b\"><a href=\"mailto:epond@durangoherald.com\">epond@durangoherald.com<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Names, status of critically injured individual not yet released<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-18420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18420","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=18420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20579,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18420\/revisions\/20579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18420"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=18420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}