{"id":321210,"date":"2025-12-01T20:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T20:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/321210\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T20:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T20:07:08","slug":"man-allegedly-shoots-crossbow-at-police-in-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/321210\/","title":{"rendered":"Man allegedly shoots crossbow at police in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man is under arrest after allegedly shooting a crossbow at police in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/melbourne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Melbourne&#039;s\">Melbourne&#8217;s<\/a> north-east yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Officers attended an address in Reynolds Road, Eltham, at about 1.40pm after reports a man armed with a crossbow was behaving erratically.<\/p>\n<p>They attempted to contact the man but were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>Police cordoned off the property, and it&#8217;s alleged the man came out from the back and loosed the crossbow at two officers.<\/p>\n<p>Police drew their guns and shots were fired at the man, who went back inside.<\/p>\n<p>The man was not physically injured and surrendered to police a short time later.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old Eltham man has been charged with multiple offences, including assaulting police and reckless life-threatening conduct.<\/p>\n<p>He will appear in court today.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>An investigation into the incident is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is under arrest after allegedly shooting a crossbow at police in Melbourne&#8217;s north-east yesterday. Officers attended&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-321210","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\/321210","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=321210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}