{"id":234739,"date":"2025-10-23T09:55:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/234739\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T09:55:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:55:16","slug":"homicide-investigation-underway-after-queensland-police-find-man-dead-on-southern-gold-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/234739\/","title":{"rendered":"Homicide investigation underway after Queensland police find man dead on southern Gold Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A homicide investigation is underway and a person is in custody after the body of a man stabbed to death was found at an apartment complex on the southern Gold Coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police were alerted by members of the public to suspicious behaviour of a man in his 20s in Coolangatta on Thursday after midday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He then fled the area.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police cars and officers at a crime scene on the Gold Coast\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/c70ffe8f121f7a52863a18f39eb9ac57\" 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 say the two men are believed to be known to each other and there is no threat to the community. (ABC News: Mackenzie Colahan)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Officers then went to an address on Dutton Street, where they found a body.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The man in his 20s was then tracked by police to Upper Coomera, where he was taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Homicide detectives are investigating and two crime scenes have been declared at the apartment complex in Coolangatta and at Upper Coomera.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police had a large section of Dutton Street cordoned off on Thursday and detectives were going between nearby houses interviewing residents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">It is believed the two men are known to each other and there is no threat to the community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Neighbours told the ABC that police were regularly called to the complex.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Anyone with information or footage of the area that could help is urged to contact police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A homicide investigation is underway and a person is in custody after the body of a man stabbed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,140880,140879,44,1158,4106],"class_list":["post-234739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-coolangatta","tag-homicide-investigation","tag-news","tag-police","tag-queensland-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}