{"id":44217,"date":"2021-10-15T01:34:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T07:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/update-cyclist-who-died-of-heart-attack-south-of-cortez-is-identified\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:17:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:17:59","slug":"update-cyclist-who-died-of-heart-attack-south-of-cortez-is-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/update-cyclist-who-died-of-heart-attack-south-of-cortez-is-identified\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Cyclist who died of heart attack south of Cortez is identified"},"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>A man who suffered a fatal heart attack while biking on Road G Wednesday evening has been identified as Roger Lee Boren, of Cortez, according to Montezuma County Coroner George Deavers.<\/p>\n<p>Boren, 57, was found unresponsive on County Road G south of Cortez and died at Southwest Memorial Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of death was determined to be a heart attack, Deavers said.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency responders, who were called about 7 p.m. Wednesday, found a man lying in the road next to his bike in the 24000 block of Road G, said Chief Jay Balfour of the Cortez Fire Protection District.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, EMTs with the fire district performed CPR on Boren, said Balfour.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was transported to Southwest Memorial Hospital, where he later died from \u201ca cardiac event,\u201d Deavers said. The man lived nearby.<\/p>\n<p>Balfour said that according to the report, the man had no visible external injuries, and the bike was not damaged. The incident was described as a medical emergency.<\/p>\n<p>Montezuma County Sheriff deputies and the Southwest Health System ambulance also responded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyclist found unresponsive on Road G; cause of death listed as heart attack <\/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":[21,255,28,61,29,538],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-44217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-death-and-dying","tag-headlines","tag-health","tag-newsletter","tag-southwest-memorial-hospital"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44217","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=44217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86007,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44217\/revisions\/86007"}],"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=44217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44217"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=44217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}