{"id":151241,"date":"2025-08-16T19:19:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T19:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/151241\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T19:19:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T19:19:13","slug":"man-charged-with-murder-over-death-of-elmars-kalejs-who-was-found-unconscious-in-perth-car-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/151241\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with murder over death of Elmars Kalejs, who was found unconscious in Perth car park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A 48-year-old man has been charged with murder over the death of a WA father who was found with serious injuries lying next to his car on Good Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\"><strong>WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this article contains an image of a person who has died, used with the permission of their family.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Elmars Kalejs, 53, was found by a passer-by on April 18, sprawled unconscious next to his silver Holden Commodore sedan in a car park near the Settlers&#8217; Common Environmental Centre in Bedfordale in Perth&#8217;s south-east.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He was taken to Royal Perth Hospital and treated for head injuries and broken ribs, but died two months later on June 24.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A close-up selfie shot of a young woman leaning in alongside her father as he lays in a hospital bed.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/3ebdb28df595b8ecbf479e84890d2d47\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Elmars Kalejs, pictured with his daughter Courtney Mallard, died in hospital. \u00a0 (GoFundMe: Courtney Mallard)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">WA police had appealed for information to help them piece together how Mr Kalejs sustained his injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">At the time, his daughter Courtney Mallard said her family wanted to know what happened to him so they could have closure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A woman in a jacket and scarf looks down at the ground\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/71d3f064fa4e2aac9aef075d9b9237c4\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Courtney Mallard appealed for information about what happened to her father.<br \/>\n\u00a0 (ABC News: Lauren Smith)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">She described him as a loving, gentle man who &#8220;lived off the land&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Today police revealed they had charged the 48-year-old man, of Cloverdale, with murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He is due to face the Perth Magistrates Court tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;Loading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 48-year-old man has been charged with murder over the death of a WA father who was found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":151242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,88755,356,88754,9620,50,44248,44247,8631,7207,88756,8632],"class_list":{"0":"post-151241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-bedfordale","10":"tag-courts","11":"tag-elmars-kalejs","12":"tag-murder","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-news-perth","15":"tag-news-wa","16":"tag-perth-news","17":"tag-police","18":"tag-settlers-common","19":"tag-wa-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115040063703971894","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}