{"id":251561,"date":"2025-10-30T19:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T19:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/251561\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T19:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T19:38:09","slug":"man-slashed-in-terrifying-machete-assault-in-melbournes-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/251561\/","title":{"rendered":"Man slashed in terrifying machete assault in Melbourne&#8217;s east"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two victims have been targeted in a horrific machete assault in Belgrave on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>A man and a woman were confronted by a group of offenders, before the 27-year-old Ferntree Gully man was slashed, with the offenders taking off a white BMW sedan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt happened so quickly,\u201d a worker at Tacos \u2018N\u2019 Tequilas in Belgrave, told Jacqui Felgate.<\/p>\n<p>Press PLAY to hear Jacqui Felgate angrily react to the footage + an eyewitness account of the terrifying assault<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Federal Member for Casey, Aaron Violi, then reacted to the \u201cheartbreaking\u201d attack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe worst feeling to be honest, is that it wasn\u2019t surprising,\u201d Mr Violi said.<\/p>\n<p>Press PLAY to hear his candid comments on the situation<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Press PLAY to watch the footage of the assault down below (TRIGGER WARNING)<\/p>\n<p>Image: Supplied\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two victims have been targeted in a horrific machete assault in Belgrave on Wednesday night. A man and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-251561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251561","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=251561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}