{"id":43611,"date":"2021-11-23T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/la-plata-county-sheriffs-office-responds-to-accidental-shooting\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T09:14:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:14:37","slug":"la-plata-county-sheriffs-office-responds-to-accidental-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/la-plata-county-sheriffs-office-responds-to-accidental-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"La Plata County Sheriff\u2019s Office responds to \u2018accidental shooting\u2019"},"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>The La Plata County Sheriff\u2019s Office has declined to release any information about a shooting that occurred Monday in southwest La Plata County.<\/p>\n<p>According to scanner reports, the Sheriff\u2019s Office responded to an \u201caccidental shooting\u201d about 3 p.m. Monday near the end of Dream Catcher Lane, a remote road in southwest La Plata County.<\/p>\n<p>According to jail logs, a man has been arrested in connection with manslaughter, but the Sheriff\u2019s Office has declined to provide details.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t have any information,\u201d said Sheriff\u2019s Office spokesman Chris Burke on Tuesday. \u201cThey are doing an active investigation on the case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>District Attorney Christian Champagne said he is aware of the case, but he hadn\u2019t received a full briefing about the circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>He said the District Attorney\u2019s Office is providing some \u201cinvestigative support,\u201d but the Sheriff\u2019s Office has jurisdiction over the shooting investigation.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-ab82be12555fdee9adcf6ede5c0aa60a\">This is a developing story. Check back with www.durangoherald.com for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-16b866051e9f50e7b2b51eec0bf18b11\"><a href=\"mailto:shane@durangoherald.com\">shane@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>enforcement declines to release any details of incident<\/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":[168,131,993,1194],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-43611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-crime","tag-homicide","tag-investigation","tag-la-plata-county-sheriffs-office"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43611","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=43611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85766,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43611\/revisions\/85766"}],"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=43611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43611"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=43611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}