{"id":53391,"date":"2020-06-12T14:46:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T20:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/33-year-old-man-found-dead-along-banks-of-animas-river\/"},"modified":"2020-06-12T20:46:47","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T20:46:47","slug":"33-year-old-man-found-dead-along-banks-of-animas-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/33-year-old-man-found-dead-along-banks-of-animas-river\/","title":{"rendered":"33-year-old man found dead along banks of 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=de873b5a-cbc8-4c68-bd64-453cd2173454&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"700\" height=\"393\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A 33-year-old man living homeless in Durango was found dead along the banks of the Animas River early Thursday, La Plata County Coroner Jann Smith said.<\/p>\n<p>Around midnight, a report came into authorities of a body lying on the ground 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 of why Shirley died, and an autopsy will be performed Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>She said no foul play is suspected.<\/p>\n<p>A call to Durango Police Department Cmdr. Ray Shupe was not immediately returned Thursday afternoon.<\/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 autopsy Tuesday will seek cause of death<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[304,255,1065,28,611,29,51],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-53391","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-newsletter","tag-police"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53391","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=53391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53391"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=53391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}