{"id":5530,"date":"2016-01-25T09:02:05","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T17:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/bethel-woman-sentenced-in-fathers-heroin-death\/"},"modified":"2016-01-25T09:02:05","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T17:02:05","slug":"bethel-woman-sentenced-in-fathers-heroin-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/bethel-woman-sentenced-in-fathers-heroin-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethel woman sentenced in father&#8217;s heroin death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANCHORAGE \u2014<\/strong> A Bethel woman who fatally injected her father with heroin will spend up to two years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>The District Attorney\u2019s Office announced Friday that 35-year-old Shannon Cooke was sentenced to six years in prison with four suspended and three years of probation.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors say 56-year-old Thomas Tungwenuk had never used heroin before he asked his daughter to inject him in September 2014. Cooke had been living with her father in Anchorage.<\/p>\n<p>Cooke called 911 after her father began sweating and experiencing chest pain and shortness of breath. He later died at a hospital and Cooke told investigators that she\u2019d injected him with the drug.<\/p>\n<p>Police found 1.5 grams of heroin in Cooke\u2019s possession.<\/p>\n<p>Cooke pleaded guilty in April to criminally negligent homicide and misconduct involving a controlled substance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 A Bethel woman who fatally injected her father with heroin will spend up to two years in prison. The District Attorney\u2019s Office announced Friday that 35-year-old Shannon Cooke was sentenced to six years in prison with four suspended and three years of probation. Prosecutors say 56-year-old Thomas Tungwenuk had never used heroin before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-5530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530","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\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5530"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=5530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}