{"id":915062,"date":"2026-07-05T22:41:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T22:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/915062\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T22:41:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T22:41:15","slug":"man-charged-with-unlawful-striking-after-west-end-park-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/915062\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with unlawful striking after West End park death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A suspect has been charged over the death of a 66-year-old man after an alleged assault at a Brisbane park on the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police will allege a fight broke out between two men at the West End park, on the corner of Thomas and Vulture Streets, shortly after midnight on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The 27-year-old from Yeronga allegedly struck the older man, causing him to fall and injure his head. The 66-year-old was taken to hospital where he died from his injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The pair did not know each other, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The 27-year-old was arrested at Fortitude Valley on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">He has been charged with unlawful striking causing death and possessing dangerous drugs, and is due to face Brisbane Magistrates Court on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A suspect has been charged over the death of a 66-year-old man after an alleged assault at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":915063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[10762,4740,4219,4446,19176,50,369819,4797,4798,369817,369818,203902],"class_list":["post-915062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-assault","tag-australia","tag-crime","tag-death","tag-injury","tag-news","tag-police-qld-police","tag-qld","tag-queensland","tag-unlawful-striking","tag-vulture-street","tag-west-end"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116869784304172002","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915062","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=915062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}