{"id":344891,"date":"2025-12-13T07:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T07:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/344891\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T07:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T07:33:08","slug":"man-charged-over-random-attack-on-teen-and-woman-who-rushed-to-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/344891\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged over random attack on teen and woman who rushed to help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged after allegedly leaving a man critically hurt on a suburban street before attacking the woman who called for help.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old man was found unconscious with serious head injuries by a walker on Christine Avenue in Varsity Lakes on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/gold-coast\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Gold Coast\">Gold Coast<\/a> around 10.40pm\ufeff yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the 34-year-old alleged attacker was waiting nearby.<\/p>\n<p>And when the 27-year-old woman, called emergency services, he attacked her as well.<\/p>\n<p>He allegedly spat on officers as they arrested him.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old man was rushed to Gold Coast University Hospital in a critical condition, while the woman was also taken there with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The \ufeffman, from Moggill in Brisbane, has been charged with grievous bodily harm, serious assault of a police officer, and common assault.<\/p>\n<p>He is due to appear in Southport Magistrates&#8217; Court today.<\/p>\n<p>Police are appealing for information.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been charged after allegedly leaving a man critically hurt on a suburban street before attacking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-344891","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\/344891","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=344891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}