{"id":64932,"date":"2020-04-30T21:53:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T21:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/law-enforcement-investigates-shooting-death-in-bloomfield\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T10:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T10:27:08","slug":"law-enforcement-investigates-shooting-death-in-bloomfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/law-enforcement-investigates-shooting-death-in-bloomfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Law enforcement investigates shooting death in Bloomfield"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=711010b1-fba1-455a-abe9-4b140782cc62&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>FARMINGTON \u2013 A shooting Thursday in Bloomfield left one man dead and authorities are searching for the suspect, according to a news release issued by the Bloomfield Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a tragic situation, and we are grateful for the immediate response from our area law enforcement agencies,\u201d Bloomfield Police Chief David Karst said in a new release posted on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bloomfieldpdnm\/posts\/2900142110040504\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">department\u2019s Facebook page<\/a>. \u201cHelp from the Sheriff\u2019s Office and New Mexico State Police will be instrumental in our investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred about 9:50 a.m. Thursday when law enforcement received a report of possible shots fired on West Maple Street in Bloomfield. At the time, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SJCSO\/posts\/3491092417585802\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Juan County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/a> told people in the area to shelter in place.<\/p>\n<p>The shelter-in-place advisory was lifted at 10:18 a.m., and residents were asked to avoid the area of West Maple Street until further notice.<\/p>\n<p>The victim, whose identity has not been released, was pronounced dead at the scene, near the 900 block of West Maple Street, said Bloomfield Police Department spokeswoman Suzanne Moore. Police declined to release details about the shooter.<\/p>\n<p>Moore said the shooting remains under investigation; additional information will be released at a later time.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:lweber@durangoherald.com\">lweber@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>pronounced dead at the scene<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1222,168,28,29,443],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-64932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-bloomfield","tag-crime","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-san-juan-county-new-mexico"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64932","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=64932"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88872,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64932\/revisions\/88872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64932"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=64932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}