{"id":51889,"date":"2020-08-24T19:23:03","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T01:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/farmington-man-arrested-on-suspicion-of-second-degree-murder\/"},"modified":"2020-08-25T01:23:03","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T01:23:03","slug":"farmington-man-arrested-on-suspicion-of-second-degree-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/farmington-man-arrested-on-suspicion-of-second-degree-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmington man arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=7ada06e7-64a7-46c5-aabd-c120701c2beb&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"656\" height=\"998\" alt=\"Davidson\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Davidson<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A 45-year-old Farmington man was arrested Aug. 21 for allegedly shooting and killing a man near West Main Street.<\/p>\n<p>The Farmington Police Department said in a news release that at about 8 p.m. Aug. 20, officers responded to a reported shooting near the intersection of West Main Street and Airport Drive.<\/p>\n<p>A man identified as Johnny Davidson had called 911 and reported he had just shot someone, the Farmington Police Department said.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was found with a single gunshot wound to the chest.<\/p>\n<p>The man, identified as Justin Tapaha, 45, of Fruitland, New Mexico, was taken to San Juan Regional Medical Center where he died from his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Davidson was arrested Aug. 21  on suspicion of second-degree murder and shooting from a motor vehicle. He was taken to San Juan County Detention Center.<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman with the Farmington Police Department said Monday the incident and possible motive remain under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with more information is asked to call the Farmington Police Department Detective Division at (505) 599-1005 or (505) 599-1068.<\/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>Davidson, 45, told authorities he shot man, police say<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[168,799,28,131,138,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-51889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-crime","tag-farmington","tag-headlines","tag-homicide","tag-new-mexico","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51889","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=51889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51889"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=51889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}