{"id":1385811,"date":"2019-01-25T10:36:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T17:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=964322"},"modified":"2019-01-25T10:36:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T17:36:07","slug":"two-colorado-middle-school-students-from-ute-mountain-ute-tribe-die-by-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/local-news\/two-colorado-middle-school-students-from-ute-mountain-ute-tribe-die-by-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Colorado middle school students from Ute Mountain Ute Tribe die by suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ute Mountain Ute and Cortez communities in the Four Corners region are grieving this week after two middle school students died by suicide over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, the latest in a growing crisis that has Colorado leaders desperately searching for solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Jeit Redrock Height, 15, and Andrew William Cuch Jr., 14, both were lifelong residents of Towaoc, a\u00a0town of fewer than 1,100 people on the\u00a0Ute Mountain Ute Reservation,\u00a0said ReeAnna Mills, a spokeswoman for the tribal administration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The community is taking it really hard,&#8221; Mills said Thursday. &#8220;These boys were incredible kids.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The two students were enrolled in Cortez Middle School, but mostly received education services from the Education Department in Towaoc, according to Montezuma-Cortez superintendent\u00a0Lori Haukeness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/01\/24\/colorado-middle-school-suicide-ute-mountain-tribe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story from The Denver Post.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/two-colorado-middle-school-students-from-ute-mountain-ute-tribe-die-by-suicide\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ute Mountain Ute and Cortez communities in the Four Corners region are grieving this week after two middle school students died by suicide over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, the latest in a growing crisis that has Colorado leaders desperately searching for solutions. Jeit Redrock Height, 15, and Andrew William Cuch Jr., [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1385811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-28 18:40:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KKCH - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1385811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1385811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1385811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1385811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}