{"id":22909,"date":"2025-03-31T18:39:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T00:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/farmington-man-shot-killed-at-large-gathering-in-crouch-mesa\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:20:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:20:05","slug":"farmington-man-shot-killed-at-large-gathering-in-crouch-mesa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/farmington-man-shot-killed-at-large-gathering-in-crouch-mesa\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmington man shot, killed at large gathering in Crouch Mesa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=0fdec14d-2bfe-5b00-bbe9-6813e4fc2566&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1014\" height=\"772\" alt=\"Samuell Tariq Liggins, 20, was shot and killed March 30 in Crouch Mesa.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Samuell Tariq Liggins, 20, was shot and killed March 30 in Crouch Mesa.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The San Juan County Sheriff\u2019s Office is investigating the death of a Farmington man.<\/p>\n<p>Sheriff\u2019s deputies were dispatched at 1:56 a.m. March 30 to County Road 3149 in response to a shooting, according to the Sheriff\u2019s Office incident log.<\/p>\n<p>San Juan County Sheriff\u2019s Public Information Manager Rebekah Click confirmed the department is investigating a homicide and the victim is Samuell Tariq Liggins, 20.<\/p>\n<p>Reports on social media stated that Liggins was shot in the face while at a large gathering in the area.<\/p>\n<p>The <em id=\"emphasis-ff100c39c955cbbc5282b95c30614c5a\">Tri-City Record<\/em> learned of the killing from Liggins\u2019 sister, Angelia Liggins, who said the family was notified by the Sheriff\u2019s Office of Tariq\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>She confirmed that Tariq and his younger brother Khalil Liggins, 18, were at a \u201cget-together\u201d when \u201ca confrontation ensued starting as a verbal spat between the shooters and my siblings, and as they made there way to my brother\u2019s car he was shot,\u201d Angelia said in an email.<\/p>\n<p>Angelia stated suspect identities were provided to the San Juan County Communications Center, and the family was told \u201cdetectives would be in touch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The family is awaiting further details in the case, she added.<\/p>\n<p>The <em id=\"emphasis-1e98ef3a9114e6f6f6f6f5ae8e179bf0\">Tri-City Record<\/em> will update this story when more information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>County Sheriff\u2019s Office confirms investigation is underway<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22910,"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-22909","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\/22909","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=22909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77898,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22909\/revisions\/77898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22909"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=22909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}