{"id":65873,"date":"2019-06-26T00:52:41","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T00:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-police-identify-man-found-dead-in-stairwell\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T17:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T17:01:10","slug":"durango-police-identify-man-found-dead-in-stairwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-police-identify-man-found-dead-in-stairwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Durango police identify man found dead in stairwell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=376dab3e-951b-44bc-b8ab-6e9b6c2a6745&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"Detectives with the Durango Police Department investigate the death of Ferlando James, a homeless resident who was found Friday in a stairwell in the 500 block of Main Avenue.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Detectives with the Durango Police Department investigate the death of Ferlando James, a homeless resident who was found Friday in a stairwell in the 500 block of Main Avenue.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Police on Tuesday released the identity of a man found dead in a stairwell last week on Main Avenue in downtown Durango.<\/p>\n<p>Ferlando James, 32, was found Friday morning in the stairwell of a business in the 500 block of Main Avenue, said Cmdr. Ray Shupe, spokesman with the Durango Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>James was a member of Durango\u2019s homeless community. A friend notified police after finding his body.<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy found no evidence of trauma to James\u2019 body, La Plata County Coroner Jann Smith said. A toxicology screening may reveal more about James\u2019 cause of death, she said. The toxicology report will likely take a month, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Police do not suspect foul play, Shupe said.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:mshinn@durangoherald.com\">mshinn@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>not suspected in death<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5932,5737,5931,5736,5735],"tags":[255,28,611],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-65873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-death-and-dying","category-headlines","category-homelessness","category-local-news","category-news","tag-death-and-dying","tag-headlines","tag-homelessness"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65873","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=65873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93264,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65873\/revisions\/93264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65873"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=65873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}