{"id":29924,"date":"2024-01-03T21:55:30","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T04:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/hesperus-man-found-dead-from-gunshot-wound-in-southwest-la-plata-county\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T01:06:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:06:45","slug":"hesperus-man-found-dead-from-gunshot-wound-in-southwest-la-plata-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/hesperus-man-found-dead-from-gunshot-wound-in-southwest-la-plata-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Hesperus man found dead from gunshot wound in southwest La Plata County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=128787ad-3319-5157-b8e5-3ba8545f7917&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"Blotter lights\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Blotter lights<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A Hesperus man was found dead from a gunshot wound Tuesday evening in southwest La Plata County.<\/p>\n<p>County Coroner Jann Smith identified the man as 36-year-old Joshua Brashear.<\/p>\n<p>The Sheriff\u2019s Office said Brashear was found outside his vehicle shortly after 5:30 p.m. near the intersection of county roads 119 and 116, west of Breen.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators suspect Brashear suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound. No foul play is suspected. The gun was found at the scene, according to a Sheriff\u2019s Office spokesman.<\/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: (970) 247-5245<\/p>\n<p><strong>NATIONAL SUICIDE PREVENTION HOTLINE<\/strong>:(800) 273-TALK (8255) or text \u201cTALK\u201d to 741741<\/p>\n<p><strong>RED NACIONAL DE PREVENCI\u00d3N DEL SUICIDIO<\/strong>:(888) 628-9454<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investigators say no foul play suspected<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2912,255,28,1194,955],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-29924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-breen","tag-death-and-dying","tag-headlines","tag-la-plata-county-sheriffs-office","tag-suicide"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29924","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=29924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80910,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29924\/revisions\/80910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29924"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=29924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}