{"id":92639,"date":"2019-07-31T19:56:07","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T19:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/man-dies-in-shooting-south-of-durango-near-state-line\/"},"modified":"2019-07-31T19:56:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T19:56:07","slug":"man-dies-in-shooting-south-of-durango-near-state-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/man-dies-in-shooting-south-of-durango-near-state-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies in shooting south of Durango, near state line"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=32bb4368-f3c4-4efa-b0b4-cd61f1d94ea7&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1413\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A man was shot and killed early Wednesday, prompting the closure of U.S. Highway 550 near the Colorado-New Mexico line as authorities searched for the suspected shooter.<\/p>\n<p>La Plata County Sheriff\u2019s Office spokesman Chris Burke said a deputy was contacted by a male and a female during the early morning hours Wednesday on the side of the southbound lane of Highway 550.<\/p>\n<p>The male had suffered a gunshot wound, Burke said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite efforts of the deputy and medical units that arrived shortly after, the man died from his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Department of Transportation spokeswoman Lisa Schwantes said the road was closed around 1 a.m. as authorities responded to the scene between mile markers 1 and 3.<\/p>\n<p>By about 2:30 a.m., the highway had reopened, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Burke said a person of interest has been detained, but he declined to release further information about the incident. The name of the man who died will be released after next of kin is notified, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis case is currently under investigation, and the Sheriff\u2019s Office will not be releasing any more details,\u201d Burke said.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Check back with www.durangoherald.com for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities say person of interested detained<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5796,5737,5916,5736,5735,6153],"tags":[168,28,1901,1384],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-92639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-headlines","category-la-plata-county-sheriff","category-local-news","category-news","category-u-s-highway-550","tag-crime","tag-headlines","tag-la-plata-county-sheriff","tag-u-s-highway-550"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92639","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=92639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92639"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=92639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}