{"id":601787,"date":"2026-02-19T20:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/601787\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T20:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:17:14","slug":"police-investigate-stabbing-of-17-year-old-at-geelong-shopping-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/601787\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigate stabbing of 17-year-old at Geelong shopping mall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A teenage boy has been taken to hospital with serious injuries following a stabbing at a Geelong shopping centre on Thursday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police were called to the Market Square shopping centre just after 3.30pm following reports of a fight between two boys in the mall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Witnesses said a group of teenage bystanders believed to be known to the pair watched them fight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A 17-year-old boy was later found by police injured nearby with suspected stab wounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He was transported to hospital with serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Detectives are still searching for the other person involved in the fight and the bystanders, who fled the scene and were last seen heading towards Yarra Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A crime scene has been established in the mall and the surrounding area as police process the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Anyone with information or anyone who may have witnessed the incident is urged to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or to submit a confidential report online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenage boy has been taken to hospital with serious injuries following a stabbing at a Geelong shopping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":601788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,8516,12654,259123,73466,50,42923,7358,3982],"class_list":["post-601787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-australia","tag-geelong","tag-mall","tag-malop-street","tag-market-square","tag-news","tag-shopping-centre","tag-stabbing","tag-teenage"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116099145133911013","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601787","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=601787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}