{"id":68435,"date":"2017-05-02T19:07:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T01:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/escalante-middle-school-student-found-dead\/"},"modified":"2017-05-03T01:07:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T01:07:09","slug":"escalante-middle-school-student-found-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/escalante-middle-school-student-found-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Escalante Middle School student found dead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=5eebcefd-d897-4490-91bc-3aa64f631246&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1422\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>An Escalante Middle School student was found dead in his home Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The 15-year-old boy was found by his parents at their home on the 8000 block of U.S. Highway 550, a La Plata County Sheriff\u2019s Office news release said.<\/p>\n<p>Sheriff\u2019s deputies and emergency medical service workers arrived at the home about 8:50 a.m., but the boy could not be revived, the release said.<\/p>\n<p>Sheriff\u2019s office spokesman Dan Bender declined to release the name of the student.<\/p>\n<p>He also declined to provide details about the circumstances of the teen\u2019s death. The La Plata County Coroner\u2019s Office will determine the cause of death after an autopsy is completed, the news release said.<\/p>\n<p>Durango School District 9-R sent a letter Tuesday to Escalante families, expressing concern and sympathy for the boy\u2019s family and offering death and grief resources for members of the community.<\/p>\n<p>The letter from Escalante Principal Jeremy Voss provided these resources:<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Axis Health System: 24-hour crisis hotline at (970) 247-5245<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">National Crisis text Hotline: 741741<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Boys Town Hotline: (800) 448-3000<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Safe2Tell Colorado: (877) 542-7233<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Colorado Crisis Services Support Line: (844) 493-8255<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:mshinn@durangoherald.com\">mshinn@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Axis Health System: 24-hour crisis hotline at (970) 247-5245<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">National Crisis text Hotline: 741741<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Boys Town Hotline: (800) 448-3000<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Safe2Tell Colorado: (877) 542-7233<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Colorado Crisis Services Support Line: (844) 493-8255<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/dur-cjweb.newscyclecloud.com\/assets\/pdf\/CJ33589852.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Escalante Letter (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/dur-cjweb.newscyclecloud.com\/assets\/pdf\/CJ33589952.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Grief Tips (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Durango School District 9R offers resources for families<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1431,1928],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-68435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-escalante-middle-school","tag-teenagers"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68435","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=68435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68435"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=68435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}