{"id":67733,"date":"2017-03-13T22:55:26","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T04:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/gunshot-victim-in-durango-west-ii-identified\/"},"modified":"2017-03-14T04:55:26","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T04:55:26","slug":"gunshot-victim-in-durango-west-ii-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/gunshot-victim-in-durango-west-ii-identified\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunshot victim in Durango West II identified"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=4d5b4b6d-61d7-4075-8fc9-62385f367b18&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 32-year-old Durango man appears to have died by suicide Sunday in the Durango West II subdivision, said La Plata County Coroner Jann Smith.<\/p>\n<p>The man was identified as Jason Alan Richards.<\/p>\n<p>Richards was at home with a woman who was either his girlfriend or wife in the 200 block of Pine Ridge Loop when she stepped outside and he apparently used a .45 caliber handgun to shoot himself, Smith said. Authorities recovered the gun.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said foul play is not suspected. An autopsy is scheduled for Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Richards was dead when deputies arrived shortly after 4:35 p.m. Sunday, said Dan Bender, spokesman for the La Plata County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office.<\/p>\n<p>He has a mother, sister and three children who live in Wyoming.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:shane@durangoherald.com\">shane@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>self-inflicted; autopsy planned for Wednesday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,955],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-67733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-suicide"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67733","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=67733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67733"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=67733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}