{"id":949253,"date":"2026-05-09T23:01:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T23:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/949253\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T23:01:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T23:01:49","slug":"police-issue-update-after-dad-of-three-stabbed-to-death-in-moss-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/949253\/","title":{"rendered":"Police issue update after dad-of-three stabbed to death in Moss Side"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police have issued an update after a man was stabbed to death<\/a> in Moss Side<\/a>. Father-of-three Adrian Brown<\/a> died in hospital after being attacked on Raby Street at about 11pm yesterday (Friday).<\/p>\n

In a statement this afternoon police said an 18-year-old suspect was being questioned by detectives having been arrested on suspicion of Mr Brown’s murder. A GMP spokesperson added the investigation was ongoing and that officers were ‘exhausting all lines of enquiry to establish the full circumstances and those involved’.<\/p>\n

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Mr Brown, who was known as Dre, was a musician, going by the name StanaMan. Tributes are flooding in on social media.<\/p>\n

One friend said: “RIP, Dre. You will be sadly missed. Gone far too soon. You were such a kind soul and amazing father.”<\/p>\n

A police scene remained in place on Raby Street, close to Westwood Street, on Saturday afternoon. A forensic tent was erected inside the cordon.<\/p>\n

\"Dre<\/p>\n

Dre Brown -Credit:Facebook<\/p>\n

Forensics specialists were pictured combing the scene, with evidence markers placed along the street.<\/p>\n

In a statement on Saturday afternoon Det Supt Toby Facey said: “This was a shocking act of violence, and our thoughts remain with the victim and his family at this incredibly difficult time. They continue to be supported by our specialist officers.<\/p>\n

“I would like to reassure the community that we believe this was a targeted attack and poses no wider risk to the public. We understand this is a deeply concerning incident, and we will have extra patrols in the area. I encourage anyone with concerns or queries to please speak with our teams.<\/p>\n

“Scenes remain in place and our officers will work throughout the day to conduct their investigation.”<\/p>\n

Anyone with dashcam, CCTV or mobile phone footage from the area is asked to contact police on 101 or through the LiveChat servic<\/a>e at gmp.police.uk<\/a>, quoting log 4069 of May 8.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have issued an update after a man was stabbed to death in Moss Side. Father-of-three Adrian Brown…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":949254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8813],"tags":[264785,748,264786,393,4884,2465,16428,31742,51919,110889,16,15],"class_list":["post-949253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manchester","tag-adrian-brown","tag-britain","tag-dre-brown","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-manchester","tag-manchester-evening-news","tag-moss-side","tag-mr-brown","tag-stabbed-to-death","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116547111424401383","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}