{"id":50511,"date":"2020-11-10T18:19:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T01:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/homeless-man-found-dead-tuesday-morning-at-camp-behind-walmart\/"},"modified":"2020-11-11T01:19:06","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T01:19:06","slug":"homeless-man-found-dead-tuesday-morning-at-camp-behind-walmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/homeless-man-found-dead-tuesday-morning-at-camp-behind-walmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeless man found dead Tuesday morning at camp behind Walmart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=7b6eecaa-871d-449f-95ba-537db11afa83&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"831\" height=\"467\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A 57-year-old man living homeless was found dead Tuesday morning at a campsite behind Walmart along the Animas River, said La Plata County Coroner Jann Smith.<\/p>\n<p>Smith said the man did not appear to have any trauma, and a cause of death remains unknown. She said an autopsy is scheduled for Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s a medical issue, but I\u2019m not sure,\u201d Smith said. \u201cHe was exposed out in the cold, but I don\u2019t think he died from hypothermia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Durango Police Cmdr. Ray Shupe said the man\u2019s next of kin was notified Tuesday, and he was identified as Dean Allen Littrell.<\/p>\n<p>It appears the Littrell was living at a makeshift campsite behind Walmart for the past three months. Friends went to check on him Tuesday morning and he was found unresponsive.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities responded to the scene around 8:45 a.m., Smith said. While there was a tent and sleeping bags on-site, the tent was not set up, she said. Emergency responders tried unsuccessfully to revive the Littrell.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:jromeo@durangoherald.com\">jromeo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coroner says cause of death unknown; autopsy planned Thursday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[304,1741,1152,611],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-50511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-animas-river","tag-animas-river-trail","tag-emergency-incident","tag-homelessness"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50511","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=50511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50511"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=50511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}