{"id":33657,"date":"2023-06-01T20:21:10","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T02:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/memorial-day-weekend-shooting-sends-one-to-hospital\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:11:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:11:56","slug":"memorial-day-weekend-shooting-sends-one-to-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/memorial-day-weekend-shooting-sends-one-to-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day weekend shooting sends one to hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=7f2b354d-c1ea-58bd-bae3-5f87b48186dc&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"The Farmington Inn on Scott Avenue was the site of a Memorial Day weekend shooting. (Debra Mayeux\/Tri-City Record)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Farmington Inn on Scott Avenue was the site of a Memorial Day weekend shooting. (Debra Mayeux\/Tri-City Record)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Farmington Police Department is investigating a shooting over the Memorial Day weekend at the Farmington Inn on Scott Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Police were dispatched to the motel around 4:45 p.m. May 28, regarding a shooting. Upon arrival they located Joshua Watkins, 37, who was wanted on a felony warrant out of the Eleventh Judicial District Court.<\/p>\n<p>Watkins reportedly violated probation, which he was serving after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a controlled substance. The charge was from Dec. 21, 2022, and he pleaded guilty Feb. 24. Before police took Watkins into custody, they questioned him about the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Police also questioned the victim, who was transported to the hospital by an unidentified family member.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe interviewed the victim, who stated he asked a man for a cigarette outside the hotel. The man aggressively said, \u2018Who do you think you\u2019re talking to?\u2019 He reached into a backpack and retrieved a handgun, placing the barrel a few inches from his left arm, and fired,\u201d police spokesperson Shanice Gonzales said.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation into the case is ongoing, as no arrests have been made, according to Gonzales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shooting witness arrested on outstanding warrant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[168,799,2833,28,51],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-33657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-crime","tag-farmington","tag-farmington-police-department","tag-headlines","tag-police"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33657","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=33657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82287,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33657\/revisions\/82287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33657"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=33657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}