{"id":66618,"date":"2019-08-30T23:45:36","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T23:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/la-plata-county-sheriffs-lieutenant-shoots-himself-in-leg\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T16:00:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:00:26","slug":"la-plata-county-sheriffs-lieutenant-shoots-himself-in-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/la-plata-county-sheriffs-lieutenant-shoots-himself-in-leg\/","title":{"rendered":"La Plata County Sheriff\u2019s lieutenant shoots himself in leg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=f90df72b-01f1-4483-95a1-c9d8009f2b25&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>A La Plata County Sheriff\u2019s Office lieutenant seriously injured himself during firearms training last week.<\/p>\n<p>Lt. Gary Boudreau accidentally shot himself in the leg during a training session with a firearms instructor Aug. 22, Sheriff Sean Smith said. An investigation showed the weapon didn\u2019t malfunction, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe weapon went off, and the bullet entered his leg, causing a severe injury,\u201d Smith said.<\/p>\n<p>Boudreau was taken to Mercy Regional Medical Center and then airlifted to St. Anthony Hospital and Medical Campus in Denver, where he is undergoing treatment, Smith said.<\/p>\n<p>Boudreau has had several surgeries, and Smith couldn\u2019t say when he might be released.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are hoping for a full recovery at this point,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Sheriff\u2019s Office plans to work with Boudreau so he can return to work, Smith said. Boudreau has worked for the Sheriff\u2019s Office for 18 years and was assigned to the La Plata County Jail.<\/p>\n<p>Boudreau\u2019s injuries will be covered by workers\u2019 compensation, but Smith did ask The Hundred Club of Durango for financial support for the family. The Hundred Club typically supports the families of law enforcement officers and firefighters after their deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Smith said he was aware of only one similar accident, in 2006.<\/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>Officer was airlifted to Denver hospital after training accident<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5737,6101,6124,5916,5797,5736,5735],"tags":[28,61,1531,1901,52],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-66618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-health-news","category-injury-news","category-la-plata-county-sheriff","category-law-enforcement","category-local-news","category-news","tag-headlines","tag-health","tag-injury","tag-la-plata-county-sheriff","tag-law-enforcement"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66618","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=66618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92545,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66618\/revisions\/92545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66618"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=66618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}