{"id":22076,"date":"2025-05-27T15:52:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T21:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/update-bloomfield-officer-injured-in-fatal-shooting-is-identified\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:11:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:11:41","slug":"update-bloomfield-officer-injured-in-fatal-shooting-is-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/update-bloomfield-officer-injured-in-fatal-shooting-is-identified\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Bloomfield officer injured in fatal shooting is identified"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=5bca6051-0935-4365-8cfa-98f87e92e4a9&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1300\" height=\"887\" alt=\"Aztec San Juan County Sheriff\u2019s Office New Mexico.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Aztec San Juan County Sheriff\u2019s Office New Mexico.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Bloomfield Police Officer Timothy Ontiveros suffered life-threatening injuries and was transported to critical condition at San Juan Regional Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p>Ontiveros was later flown to University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque for continued treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Ontiveros was shot by a suspect during a routine traffic stop at 10:55 a.m. May 26 in Bloomfield.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA second officer was on scene and ended up returning,\u201d Bloomfield Police Chief Phillip Francisco said, adding, \u201cThe suspect is deceased.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The San Juan County Officer-involved Shooting Task Force is investigating, according to Francisco, who said the identify of the other officer will not be released until the investigation is complete.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation,\u201d Francisco said.<\/p>\n<p>The San Juan County Sheriff\u2019s Office in a news release stated the shooting suspect\u2019s identity would not be released pending notification of the next of kin.<\/p>\n<p>Francisco said his department appreciates \u201call the law enforcement and first responders and medical personnel and their response to this. They\u2019ve really come together to help us in this time need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-982261c5d10633087816001f6ad691b7\">Editor\u2019s note: This story was updated at 11:25 a.m. May 27 to include the name of the officer and comments from Bloomfield Police Chief Phillip Francisco.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-f7220eece0dc1b4532a0b7e203f6e6cb\">This article was updated at 7:10 p.m. May 27 to state that Ontiveros was flown to UNM Hospital for treatment of his injuries.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francisco: Second officer also fired at suspect<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-22076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22076","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=22076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77568,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22076\/revisions\/77568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22076"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=22076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}