{"id":387775,"date":"2026-01-02T23:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T23:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/387775\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T23:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T23:09:09","slug":"police-hunt-for-offenders-after-shooting-in-melbournes-inner-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/387775\/","title":{"rendered":"Police hunt for offenders after shooting in Melbourne&#8217;s inner north"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A man has died following a shooting in Melbourne&#8217;s inner north on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Emergency services were called to the intersection of Brunswick and King William streets in Fitzroy after gunshots were heard just after midnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A man, who is yet to be formally identified, was located with life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He was treated at the scene but died.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A police cordon\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/e49f314868c34e778c118bae7eef97a2.jpeg\" 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 cordoned off King William St in Fitzroy as a crowd gathered at the intersection. (ABC News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police cordoned off a section of King William Street as detectives searched the area, which is located just 100 metres from Fitzroy Police Station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Inside the cordon, police were seen examining a car with a smashed windshield.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Forensic investigators\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/76cb4191664ebf2ad7788d2e6c474b9d.jpeg\" 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\">Forensic investigators studied the smashed windshield of a car at the crime scene. (ABC News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">No arrests have been made, and it is understood that those involved fled the scene in a vehicle before police arrived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police say an investigation into the incident is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Anyone with CCTV footage or who witnessed any suspicious activity is urged to contact Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has died following a shooting in Melbourne&#8217;s inner north on Saturday morning. Emergency services were called&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,70979,43,44,1158,4905,41,39,42,40,660],"class_list":{"0":"post-387775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-fitzroy","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-police","13":"tag-shooting","14":"tag-top-news","15":"tag-top-stories","16":"tag-topnews","17":"tag-topstories","18":"tag-victoria"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387775","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=387775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}