{"id":92456,"date":"2022-10-28T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/police-investigate-death-in-lemon-creek-area\/"},"modified":"2022-10-29T14:35:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T22:35:17","slug":"police-investigate-death-in-lemon-creek-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/police-investigate-death-in-lemon-creek-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigate death in Lemon Creek area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ins><em>This article has been updated. <\/em><\/ins><\/p>\n<p>Police confirmed a 34-year-old man was found dead Saturday morning near a Lemon Creek area car wash, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/juneau.org\/police\/jpd-psa-individual-view\/entry\/88041\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Juneau Police Department. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>JPD identified the man as 34-year-old John Lee Loper. The death is not considered suspicious, JPD said in a news release, and there is no public safety concern in connection to the death, which was due to a gunshot. Loper&rsquo;s next of kin has been notified.<\/p>\n<p>At 8:18 a.m. police received a report of a dead man outside of a business in the 5400 block of Bent Court. Upon arriving, Capital City Fire\/Rescue and JPD confirmed the death of the man, according to JPD. Police worked with nearby businesses to gather evidence and determine the cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>A firearm was located at the scene, and police were able to confirm the time of death, which was shortly before 6 a.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>During the investigation, the area of Ralph Way and Bent Court was closed for about three hours, according to JPD.<\/p>\n<p>&#8226; <em>Contact the Juneau Empire newsroom at (907)308-4895. Have a news tip? Email editor@juneauempire.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JPD says death not considered suspicious, and there is no public safety concern. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":92457,"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":[344],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-92456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92456","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\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92456"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=92456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}