{"id":40656,"date":"2022-05-12T21:58:28","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T03:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/man-stabbed-in-apparent-bar-fight-in-cortez\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:56:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:56:57","slug":"man-stabbed-in-apparent-bar-fight-in-cortez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/man-stabbed-in-apparent-bar-fight-in-cortez\/","title":{"rendered":"Man stabbed in apparent bar fight in Cortez"},"content":{"rendered":"<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>\n<p>One man was hospitalized in Grand Junction with a stab wound after a fight May 8 at a Cortez bar, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>No suspect has been identified.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe the victim knew the suspect, but we don\u2019t have a name,\u201d said Andy Brock, public information officer for the Cortez Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Officer Joseph Yen responded to Southwest Memorial Hospital after a report of a stabbing near Angel\u2019s End Zone, 309 N. Broadway, about 2:15 a.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The stabbed man, Zack Lang,  told Yen, \u201cit was just a bar fight,\u201d according to the officer\u2019s incident report.<\/p>\n<p>The stabbing apparently came after a confrontation \u201cat the front of the bar.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>Employees at Angel\u2019s reported that Lang had repeatedly called a man in a white T-shirt a \u201cbaby raper.\u201d Video surveillance from the bar about 2:10 a.m. showed the man punch Lang, who fell to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>According to employees, the man left the scene in a red Dodge Charger.<\/p>\n<p>About 2:12 a.m., Lang then ran northwest of the bar, out of surveillance view.<\/p>\n<p>Lang\u2019s girlfriend, Inandre Dale, said Lang was then involved in a second fight, with a man in a black T-shirt near the RC Southwest Development building, at 311 N Broadway.<\/p>\n<p>After the second fight, Lang was seen leaving the area with a stab wound.<\/p>\n<p>Lang suffered lacerations on the left side of his face and upper abdomen. Emergency room staff at Southwest Memorial said Lang would be flown to St. Mary\u2019s Hospital in Grand Junction because the knife wound injured his liver.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-0e115b5c8601ea1c9371ec650a1e4782\"><a href=\"mailto:kpercival@durangoherald.com\">kpercival@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>believe victim knew suspect, but no name was given<\/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":[21,923,28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-40656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-domestic-violence","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40656","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=40656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84718,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40656\/revisions\/84718"}],"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=40656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40656"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=40656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}