{"id":628536,"date":"2026-03-03T06:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T06:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/628536\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T06:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T06:02:15","slug":"murder-charge-downgraded-to-assault-after-man-dies-in-adelaide-hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/628536\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder charge downgraded to assault after man dies in Adelaide Hills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A man has had his murder charge downgraded to an assault charge following the death of a 39-year-old man in the Adelaide Hills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police said they were called to Paterson Lane at Mount Barker just before 10pm on Monday after reports a man had been assaulted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">They said the alleged victim was taken in a private vehicle to hospital, where he died a short time later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A 25-year-old man from Pooraka allegedly fled the scene but was arrested nearby.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Two people walking on street with folders in their hands\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/6e1d5590c7d1eba2b717d5737a4d96be.jpeg\" 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\">Detectives attended the scene on Tuesday morning.\u00a0 (ABC News: Daniel Taylor)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police said he was initially arrested for murder, but had now been charged with assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;The charges were downgraded after a post-mortem examination determined the victim&#8217;s cause of death was a pre-existing medical condition,&#8221; police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The man has not applied for bail and was expected to face the Adelaide Magistrates Court on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police said the alleged incident was not random and the men were known to each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has had his murder charge downgraded to an assault charge following the death of a 39-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":628537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[268196,131076,4740,4446,268197,54513,50,268198,37472],"class_list":["post-628536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-adelaide-hills","tag-assault-charge","tag-australia","tag-death","tag-man-died","tag-murder-charge","tag-news","tag-paterson-lane","tag-sapol"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116163729580082470","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628536","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=628536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}