{"id":31700,"date":"2023-09-16T00:43:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T06:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/update-one-person-jailed-others-are-suspected-in-cortez-shooting\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T01:44:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:44:43","slug":"update-one-person-jailed-others-are-suspected-in-cortez-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/update-one-person-jailed-others-are-suspected-in-cortez-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: One person jailed, others are suspected in Cortez shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=192b808a-c004-553f-8e12-90d597360ae3&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>One suspect has been arrested in connection with the shooting Friday night near Empire Street in Cortez, but the suspect has not been named.<\/p>\n<p>Cortez Police Department\u2019s Tyson Cox said one of the suspects was in jail, but said \u201cthere were multiple suspects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An official statement from Chief Vernon Knuckles is expected Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Cortez Police Department responded to a report of shots fired at 4:19 p.m. Friday in the area of West Empire and North Market Streets in Cortez.<\/p>\n<p>One person was taken to Southwest Memorial Hospital for treatment, then transferred out of the area for a \u201chigher level of care,\u201d according to a news release from Vicki Shaffer, public information coordinator of Montezuma County. No other injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>Suspects have been identified, but no arrests have been made, according to the news release.<\/p>\n<p>The Montezuma County Sheriff\u2019s Office assisted with the search, Shaffer said in an email about 7:40 p.m. Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The public was not believed to be in danger, but residents were asked to avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p>Residents also were asked to not call dispatch for information.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-a2666796e740d4d887d1d293e0084da7\">Updates will be provided as they become available<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>suspect has been apprehended in the case; official statement to come Monday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[168,28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-31700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-crime","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31700","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=31700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81535,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31700\/revisions\/81535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31700"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=31700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}