{"id":69832,"date":"2017-08-01T19:10:21","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T01:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-man-49-found-dead-sunday-in-his-home\/"},"modified":"2017-08-02T01:10:21","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T01:10:21","slug":"durango-man-49-found-dead-sunday-in-his-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-man-49-found-dead-sunday-in-his-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Durango man, 49, found dead Sunday in his home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=8800d6d3-ec8f-44eb-940c-f5b8f71a1fee&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1422\" alt=\"A 49-year-old Durango man was found dead Sunday from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to the La Plata County Sheriff\u2019s Office.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A 49-year-old Durango man was found dead Sunday from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to the La Plata County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A 49-year-old man was found dead Sunday in a Durango West II home from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to the La Plata County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Sheriff\u2019s spokesman Dan Bender said a woman called around 10:40 a.m. to report her husband had shot himself.<\/p>\n<p>Bender said emergency responders were unable to revive Michael Passalaqua.<\/p>\n<p>La Plata County Coroner Jann Smith said Passalaqua had a history of depression. She said an autopsy will be performed Monday.<\/p>\n<p>If officially ruled a suicide, Passalaqua\u2019s death  marks the 12th suicide this year in La Plata County.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:jromeo@durangoherald.com\">jromeo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"naviga-scoreboard\">\n<h4 class=\"scoreboard-title\">For help<\/h4>\n<p>Help for people having suicidal thoughts or for those who fear a person is considering killing himself can be found from these sources:<br>\n                Axis Health System: 24-hour hotline at 247-5245.<br>\n                National Suicide Prevention Hotline: (800) 273-TALK (8255).<br>\n                RED Nacional de Prevenci\u00f3N Del Suicidio: (888) 628-9454.<br>\n                National Crisis text Hotline: 741741<br>\n                Boys Town Hotline: (800) 448-3000.<br>\n                Safe2Tell Colorado: (877) 542-7233 or online at https:\/\/safe2tell.org.<br>\n                Colorado Crisis Support Line: (844) 493-8255. The line has mental-health professionals available to talk to adults or youths about any crisis.<br>\n                Second Wind Fund: (720) 962-0706. This is not a crisis hotline, but the fund is available to youths who face social or financial barriers to crisis counseling. The organization requires a referral by a school counselor or mental-health professional.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69833,"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-69832","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\/69832","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=69832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69832"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=69832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}