{"id":502055,"date":"2026-01-08T19:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T19:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/502055\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T19:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T19:52:15","slug":"mullewa-gunman-manhunt-live-updates-trg-expand-search-for-kenneth-john-giles-after-shooting-in-wa-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/502055\/","title":{"rendered":"Mullewa gunman manhunt live updates: TRG expand search for Kenneth John Giles after shooting in WA town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Police say there are \u201cshacks and disused mines\u2019 in Mid West bushland as they continue to seek the whereabout of of Kenneth Giles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cWe\u2019ve got air wing involved, primarilty searching from above, searching for the vehicle,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cAir wing have been around since last night, so we\u2019ve got a number of vehicles on patrol and conducting patrols of tracks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cAs you can probably appreciate out in the bush, there are a lot of places to sneak out . . .a lot of shacks and disused mines, things like that.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2af85baaa85c0f9a9308df3a82e23cbf4c003b5d.jpg\" alt=\"Police search in Mullewa, for  the missing Gunman. Picture 7NEWS\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconPolice search in Mullewa. Credit: 7NEWS<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cWe are primarily focusing around the incident site. We\u2019re expanding from there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Supt. Vanderplank issued a personal plea for Mr Giles to \u201chand himself into police\u201d after nearly 24 hours without answers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cThis is a personal plea to Kenneth John Giles, to please hand himself into police, make himself known,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cHis safety and that of the community is paramount for WA Police.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/5bc90c8b7d92c0437c5fea7c7f8ebeef5739ece9.jpg\" alt=\"Police search in Mullewa, for  the missing Gunman. Picture 7NEWS\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconPolice say there are \u201cshacks and disused mines\u2019 in Mid West bushland as they continue to seek the whereabout of of Kenneth Giles.\u00a0 Credit: 7NEWS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say there are \u201cshacks and disused mines\u2019 in Mid West bushland as they continue to seek the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":502056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,4219,50,158780,8632],"class_list":{"0":"post-502055","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-news","11":"tag-regional-wa","12":"tag-wa-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115861228483942417","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502055","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=502055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}