{"id":103417,"date":"2023-10-08T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/death-investigation-underway-at-cope-park\/"},"modified":"2023-10-08T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T05:30:00","slug":"death-investigation-underway-at-cope-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/death-investigation-underway-at-cope-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Death investigation underway at Cope Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ins><em>This is a developing story.<\/em><\/ins><\/p>\n<p>An investigation is underway after a 29-year-old man was found dead at Cope Park on Monday afternoon, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The investigation is still very early on,&rdquo; said Juneau Police Department spokesperson Lt. Krag Campbell at about 1:30 p.m. The death is not considered suspicious and next of kin has been notified.<\/p>\n<p>According to Campbell, at about 12:42 p.m. police received a request for a welfare check of a person who was believed to be in the area of Cope Park. Police received another call at about 1:06 p.m. from a resident in the trail area near Cope Park&rsquo;s parking lot who said they had discovered an unconscious man.<\/p>\n<p>According to Campbell, Alaska State Troopers arrived at 1:07 p.m. to assist JPD in the investigation, and soon discovered the man and began resuscitation, but were unsuccessful in reviving the body.<\/p>\n<p>Alisha Seward, incident commander for Alaska State Troopers, was at the scene at about 1:30 p.m. She said after the initial assist the investigation is now being conducted by JPD.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8226; Contact Clarise Larson at clarise.larson@juneauempire.com or (651) 528-1807.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death of the 29-year-old man is not considered suspicious, police say. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":890,"featured_media":103418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[640],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-103417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-cops-and-courts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/890"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103417"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=103417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}