{"id":437004,"date":"2025-12-10T04:08:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T04:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/437004\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T04:08:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T04:08:15","slug":"police-arrest-16-year-old-boy-over-fatal-stabbing-at-ascot-vale-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/437004\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest 16-year-old boy over fatal stabbing at Ascot Vale intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A teenage boy has been arrested following a fatal stabbing in Melbourne&#8217;s north on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police say they located the 16-year-old in Carlton on Tuesday morning before he was taken to hospital under police guard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He will be interviewed after he receives medical treatment for existing injuries to his hand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The 16-year-old is the second person to be arrested over Sunday&#8217;s stabbing, which claimed the life of a 40-year-old man found with stab wounds at the intersection of Maribyrnong and Union Roads at about 3:45pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">An 18-year-old man was charged with intentionally cause injury, affray, escape custody and theft the next day.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police officers stand behind police tape next to a police car.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765339695_862_c2973ec1a354bcad7caa294ad137cd7b\" 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\">Police said they increased their presence in the area after Sunday&#8217;s incident. (ABC News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police allege both teenagers fled the scene before officers arrived, with the 18-year-old located several streets away at about 4pm on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Homicide detectives say they are not looking for anyone else in relation to the matter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The 18-year-old, of no fixed address, was remanded to appear before the Melbourne Magistrates&#8217; Court on December 18 earlier this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenage boy has been arrested following a fatal stabbing in Melbourne&#8217;s north on Sunday afternoon. Police say&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":431629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,4219,4446,11767,50,7358,3983,11108],"class_list":{"0":"post-437004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-death","11":"tag-fatal","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-stabbing","14":"tag-teenager","15":"tag-youth"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115693310107164658","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437004","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=437004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}