{"id":41368,"date":"2022-04-01T01:19:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T07:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/childs-death-under-investigation-by-montezuma-county-sheriff-cbi\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:00:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:00:40","slug":"childs-death-under-investigation-by-montezuma-county-sheriff-cbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/childs-death-under-investigation-by-montezuma-county-sheriff-cbi\/","title":{"rendered":"Child\u2019s death under investigation by Montezuma County sheriff, CBI"},"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>The Montezuma County Sheriff\u2019s Office is investigating the death of a 5-year-old that occurred Tuesday at a residence on Road 20.<\/p>\n<p>Sheriff Steve Nowlin identified the child as Anika Leonard Sandoval.<\/p>\n<p>The case is being investigated as suspicious because cause of death was unknown,  Nowlin said. There were no obvious traumatic injuries.<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy was performed, and the results, including toxicology, are pending. The Colorado Bureau of Investigation is assisting with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Sheriff deputies and EMTs responded to the home at 16281 County Road 20 north of Cortez about 10:30 a.m. and found Sandoval\u2019s grandfather administering CPR, Nowlin said. The time of death has not been determined.<\/p>\n<p>Nowlin said the girl\u2019s grandmother found the child unresponsive laying in bed with her sleeping mother, Rachel Leonard.<\/p>\n<p>Once awake, Leonard was incoherent and was transported to Southwest Memorial Hospital, then flown to St. Mary\u2019s Medical Center in Grand Junction, Nowlin said. She has since been released from the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s heartbreaking. We need to find what caused this child to die,\u201d Nowlin said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five-year old found unresponsive Tuesday morning at Road 20 home<\/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":[21,28,60,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-41368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-county","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41368","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=41368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84942,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41368\/revisions\/84942"}],"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=41368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41368"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=41368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}