{"id":1311000,"date":"2019-06-04T15:41:18","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T21:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=979965"},"modified":"2019-06-04T15:41:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T21:41:18","slug":"longtime-aspen-local-jerome-hatem-found-dead-under-snowmobile-on-backside-of-aspen-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/longtime-aspen-local-jerome-hatem-found-dead-under-snowmobile-on-backside-of-aspen-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"Longtime Aspen local Jerome Hatem found dead under snowmobile on backside of Aspen Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Gentlemen of Aspen Rugby Football Club President Jerome Hatem helps set up for the awards after the club beat the Dark ‘n Stormy Misfits in the Aspen Ruggerfest final in September 2018. Hatem died this week in a snowmobile accident.<\/strong>
Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

A longtime member and organizer of the Gentlemen of Aspen rugby club was found dead late Monday underneath a snowmobile on the backside of Aspen Mountain, officials said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Jerome Hatem, 59, was discovered late Monday near the top of Little Annie Road by a resident of the area, said Jesse Steindler, patrol captain with the Pitkin County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

Hatem\u2019s death appears accidental and likely occurred Sunday night, though he was not found until Monday night, according to Steindler and Pitkin County Deputy Coroner Eric Hansen.<\/p>\n

The resident told sheriff\u2019s deputies he heard a snowmobile go up the road between 7 and 7:30 p.m. Sunday night but thought nothing of it because it\u2019s a common mode of transportation in that area when it\u2019s covered in snow, he said. The man said he then saw the snowmobile overturned uphill from his home the next morning about 7 a.m.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe thought someone rolled it and walked home,\u201d Steindler said.<\/p>\n

The resident went about his business all day and again noticed the overturned snowmobile about 7:30 p.m. Monday, when he walked up the road to see who it belonged to, he said. When he got there, he saw Hatem\u2019s body underneath the snowmobile and recognized him, Steindler said.<\/p>\n

The surprise discovery upset the man, he said. He then walked back to his home and called authorities.<\/p>\n

The official cause of Hatem\u2019s death remains under investigation and is pending an autopsy, Hansen said. It appeared to have been an accidental snowmobile accident, he said.<\/p>\n

Hatem was a fixture in the rugby community and was the president of the Aspen Gents club as recently as last year.<\/p>\n

This is a developing story that will be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n

via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Gentlemen of Aspen Rugby Football Club President Jerome Hatem helps set up for the awards after the club beat the Dark ‘n Stormy Misfits in the Aspen Ruggerfest final in September 2018. Hatem died this week in a snowmobile accident.Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times A longtime member and organizer of the Gentlemen of Aspen rugby […]<\/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":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1311000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 13:38:48","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":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1311000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1311000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1311000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1311000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}