{"id":1850,"date":"2018-08-12T11:47:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T18:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/man-dies-from-gunshot-wound\/"},"modified":"2018-08-13T13:02:45","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T20:02:45","slug":"man-dies-from-gunshot-wound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/home\/man-dies-from-gunshot-wound\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies from gunshot wound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Juneau man died Saturday from a gunshot wound to the head, according to a Juneau Police Department press release.<\/p>\n<p>The man, identified as 63-year-old Juneau resident Bruce Alan Owens, had gone with a friend to a business in the 1700 block of Crest Street for recreational shooting, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juneaupolice.com\/PSA-template.php?UID=2007\" target=\"_blank\">the release<\/a>. There were witnesses and the shooting was caught on the store&rsquo;s video surveillance system, police say, and there was no indication of a disturbance or any other problem prior to the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>JPD Lt. Krag Campbell would not explicitly say whether the gunshot wound was self-inflicted, but said the gunshot was not accidental, there was no foul play and there&rsquo;s no threat to the community.<\/p>\n<p>Police responded to the scene at 2:07 p.m. Saturday, according to the release, and Capital City Fire\/Rescue transported Owens to Bartlett Regional Hospital where he was pronounced dead. Next of kin has been notified, and Owens&rsquo; body will be flown to the Alaska Medical Examiner&rsquo;s Office for an autopsy.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>\u2022 Contact reporter Alex McCarthy at 523-2271 or amccarthy@juneauempire.com. Follow him on Twitter at @akmccarthy.<\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Juneau man died Saturday from a gunshot wound to the head, according to a Juneau Police Department press release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":428,"featured_media":1851,"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":[188,89,75,226],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-1850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-guns","tag-juneau-police-department","tag-local-news","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850","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\/428"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1850"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}