{"id":50200,"date":"2020-11-26T15:37:51","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T22:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/family-identifies-man-shot-south-of-durango\/"},"modified":"2020-11-26T22:37:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T22:37:51","slug":"family-identifies-man-shot-south-of-durango","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/family-identifies-man-shot-south-of-durango\/","title":{"rendered":"Family identifies man shot south of Durango"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=7cbc7435-d36b-46fc-ba6a-a0cdb84f3f77&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1155\" alt=\"George Sands, right, with daughters and son. Sands died Tuesday in a shooting south of Durango. Authorities have released few details about the shooting death that involved a Southern Ute tribal ranger.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">George Sands, right, with daughters and son. Sands died Tuesday in a shooting south of Durango. Authorities have released few details about the shooting death that involved a Southern Ute tribal ranger.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Debbie Powell<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A La Plata County man who was shot and killed Tuesday south of Durango was identified Wednesday as George Sands.<\/p>\n<p>Sands was homeless and worked for a family in exchange for meals and a place to stay, said his sister, Debbie Powell, who lives in Oregon. She called her brother kind, a hard-worker and a father of three girls and one boy who will have a \u201chard process of dealing with his death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sands has five sisters and had an older brother who died in 2004, she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGeorge was a good person, not a perfect one but a good person,\u201d she wrote in an email to <em>The Durango Herald<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting was reported about 12:30 p.m. Tuesday near Weaselskin Bridge at La Posta Road (County Road 213) and County Road 214.<\/p>\n<p>The La Plata County Sheriff\u2019s Office said the case is being handled by the Southern Ute Indian Tribe, although the FBI was also involved.<\/p>\n<p>The tribe has released few details about the shooting other than to confirm an incident took place and involved a tribal ranger.<\/p>\n<p>Powell said her family has also received scant information about the death of her brother.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis just feels really unjust and unmoral,\u201d she said. \u201cWe realize under the circumstances there are steps to take. But I would think the family being notified would be on the top of that list.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An FBI spokeswoman declined to comment Wednesday night, saying the case is \u201cactive and ongoing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:shane@durangoherald.com\">shane@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities release few details about shooting death involving tribal ranger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29,629],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-50200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-southern-ute-indian-tribe"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50200","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=50200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50200"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=50200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}