{"id":67538,"date":"2017-05-30T15:53:17","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T21:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/police-subdue-woman-after-standoff-on-river-trail-in-durango\/"},"modified":"2017-05-30T21:53:17","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T21:53:17","slug":"police-subdue-woman-after-standoff-on-river-trail-in-durango","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/police-subdue-woman-after-standoff-on-river-trail-in-durango\/","title":{"rendered":"Police subdue woman after standoff on river trail in Durango"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=aa95183b-664b-4d09-ac58-ca4a0b497ada&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"The Durango Police Department used a Taser gun and less-lethal bean bag rounds to end a standoff with an armed woman who was experiencing suicidal thoughts Monday along the Animas River Trail behind Home Depot.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Durango Police Department used a Taser gun and less-lethal bean bag rounds to end a standoff with an armed woman who was experiencing suicidal thoughts Monday along the Animas River Trail behind Home Depot.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Shane Benjamin\/Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A section of the Animas River Trail was cordoned off for more than an hour Monday while police tried to subdue a woman armed with a handgun who was experiencing suicidal thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>The standoff started about 3:22 p.m. behind the Home Depot in south Durango.<\/p>\n<p>Police tried to communicate with the woman, but she was despondent and too close to the river to hear officers, said Cmdr. Ray Shupe, spokesman for the Durango Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had trouble communicating with her because she was next to the river and it was loud,\u201d he said. \u201cShe wasn\u2019t really respondent in two-way communications.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Officers blocked off a section of the river trail and kept people away from the general area, on both sides of the river, Shupe said.<\/p>\n<p>Police ended up using less-lethal bean bag rounds and a Taser to subdue the woman, remove her handgun and take her into custody, he said. The standoff ended at 4:45 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>She was taken to Mercy Regional Medical and then to Axis Health System to receive a mental health evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>The 42-year-old woman never pointed the gun at officers, and she was not charged with any crimes, Shupe said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLuckily she wasn\u2019t injured and none of our guys were injured, so it ended the best it could,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\">shane@durangoherald<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officers use Taser, bean bag rounds to end impasse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1065,28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-67538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-durango-police-department","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67538","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=67538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67538"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=67538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}