{"id":53316,"date":"2020-06-16T18:41:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T00:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/autopsy-doesnt-find-cause-of-death-for-man-found-dead-along-animas-river\/"},"modified":"2020-06-17T00:41:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T00:41:53","slug":"autopsy-doesnt-find-cause-of-death-for-man-found-dead-along-animas-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/autopsy-doesnt-find-cause-of-death-for-man-found-dead-along-animas-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Autopsy doesn\u2019t find cause of death for man found dead along Animas River"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=711c783d-2a9a-4c9d-a380-e0137b899490&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>An autopsy Tuesday failed to explain why a 33-year-old man was found dead last week along the banks of the Animas River, La Plata County Coroner Jann Smith said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t find anything,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Around midnight Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/durangoherald.com\/articles\/327844#:~:text=A%2033%2Dyear%2Dold%20man,County%20Coroner%20Jann%20Smith%20said.&amp;text=Upon%20investigation%2C%20the%20man%20was,the%20homeless%20community%20in%20Durango.\">a report came in to authorities of a body lying on the ground<\/a> near the Ninth Street Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Upon investigation, the man was found to be deceased. He was identified as Manuel Shirley, who Smith said was part of the homeless community in Durango.<\/p>\n<p>Smith said there were no obvious signs at the scene of why Shirley died, though no foul play was suspected.<\/p>\n<p>Smith said it is unusual that after an autopsy authorities still don\u2019t know why Shirley died. She said a toxicology test may shed more light on the situation, the results of which will take about four weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Smith said she was able to locate next of kin in Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>Calls to Durango Police Department Cmdr. Ray Shupe were not immediately returned Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities now await results of toxicology test<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[304,255,1065,28,611,993,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-53316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-animas-river","tag-death-and-dying","tag-durango-police-department","tag-headlines","tag-homelessness","tag-investigation","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53316","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=53316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53316"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=53316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}