{"id":25915,"date":"2024-08-30T02:04:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T02:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/update-man-faces-murder-charges-in-double-homicide-in-bloomfield\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T05:29:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:29:32","slug":"update-man-faces-murder-charges-in-double-homicide-in-bloomfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/update-man-faces-murder-charges-in-double-homicide-in-bloomfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Man faces murder charges in double homicide in Bloomfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=eb5782c7-2280-5d8f-8d29-be4487728716&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1558\" alt=\"Isaiah Brown and Ravyn Burns\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Isaiah Brown and Ravyn Burns<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The San Juan County Sheriff\u2019s Office on Friday announced that a man has been arrested in a double homicide Wednesday in Bloomfield after a shootout Thursday at a mobile home near Waterflow.<\/p>\n<p>According to a news release from the Sheriff\u2019s Office, detectives and the U.S. Marshals Service on Friday tracked the suspect and a woman from the Bloomfield home to a mobile home near Waterflow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSan Juan County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Farmington Police Department, U.S. Marshals Service and the New Mexico State Police arrived at the location and began to call out Isaiah Brown and Ravyn Burns,\u201d said the news release from Capt. Kevin Burns, acting public information officer for the Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Brown then fired \u201cnumerous rounds at deputies and officers, and two deputies and three Farmington officers returned fire, firing at least one round each,\u201d the news release said.<\/p>\n<p>A fire then broke out in the mobile home and Brown and Ravyn Burns escaped and hid nearby, while law enforcement officers provided protection to allow fire crews to suppress the fire.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"naviga-map\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=36.7523334%2C-108.4038821&amp;z=15&amp;output=embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" style=\"border:0;\" allowfullscreen loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Map\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cOnce the fire was manageable, deputies and officers arrested the female,\u201d the news release said. \u201cThe male who was injured from the previous gunfire, was then retrieved and transported to San Juan Regional with serious but nonlife-threatening injuries. The home was a complete loss and multiple residents were evacuated during the incident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No law enforcement officers were injured, and the two officers who fired their weapons were placed on standard administrative leave, the news release said.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook posts from the San Juan County Fire and Rescue provided a brief timeline of the shootout and arrests at the mobile home.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=8d269158-b857-5e74-b965-d1f4f43ba469&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1511\" alt=\"San Juan County Fire and Rescue\u2019s Facebook post about 6:40 p.m. (Screenshot from Facebook)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">San Juan County Fire and Rescue\u2019s Facebook post about 6:40 p.m. (Screenshot from Facebook)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>San Juan County Fire and Rescue announced on its Facebook page about 6:40 p.m. that crews were fighting a fire in the area of Road 6693 just south of U.S. Highway 64. At 7:16 p.m. an updated post announced that U.S. 64 had reopened, but restrictions were in place on Roads 6693, 6690 and 6694.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe law enforcement activity is over and fire crews are in the process of putting out a structure fire,\u201d the post said.<\/p>\n<p>Brown faces two counts of second-degree homicide and unlawful taking of a motor vehicle. Ravyn Burns was arrested on an outstanding warrant, and additional charges might be considered, the news release said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Sheriff\u2019s Office news release, the case began about 7:30 p.m. Wednesday when officers from the Bloomfield Police Department and the Sheriff\u2019s Office arrived at a home in the area of County Road 4909 after a report that two people were dead inside a home.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the home, officers and deputies found the bodies of a man and woman with fatal gunshot wounds. Their identities have been withheld until next of kin have been notified.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"naviga-map\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=36.72395615754%2C-107.93057414288&amp;z=15&amp;output=embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" style=\"border:0;\" allowfullscreen loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Map\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n<p>Detectives responded to the scene and learned that Brown and Burns had been in a room in the back of the Bloomfield house with the man and woman. An argument ensued, and Brown fired, hitting the man and woman, the news release said. Brown and Burns then fled in the victims\u2019 vehicle. They were found the next day at the mobile home.<\/p>\n<p>Several law enforcement agencies were involved in the investigation, the news release said. They include the San Juan County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Farmington Police Department, U.S. Marshals Service and the New Mexico State Police.<\/p>\n<p>The news release thanked the fire department for its \u201cservice and partnership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-55c17222f1c7829b4455825a5281ab63\">The Tri-City Record will update this story when information comes available.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man arrested after shootout, fire at mobile home; woman also arrested<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-25915","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\/25915","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=25915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79152,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25915\/revisions\/79152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25915"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=25915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}