{"id":398338,"date":"2026-01-07T21:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T21:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/398338\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T21:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T21:27:07","slug":"man-shot-dead-by-nsw-police-during-siege-on-nsw-central-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/398338\/","title":{"rendered":"Man shot dead by NSW police during siege on NSW Central Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A man has been shot dead by police who stormed a house to end a siege on the New South Wales Central Coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Officers went to a home on Wells Street in Springfield, east of Gosford, just before 3:30pm on Wednesday to check the welfare of a 49-year-old man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">NSW Police said specialist officers were called in and a perimeter established when he armed himself with a screwdriver and other sharp objects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The stand-off continued for almost six hours before the man attempted to burn an officer by lighting an aerosol can, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">They said officers from Tactical Operations Regional Support broke into the house before the man armed himself with a sharp object and tried to repeatedly stab an officer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Officers shot the man, who died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A police officer received a minor injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A critical incident team from State Crime Command&#8217;s homicide squad will lead an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">That investigation will be reviewed by the Professional Standards Command and overseen by the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been shot dead by police who stormed a house to end a siege on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,185003,11224,5315,44,1158,6646,2174,212178,212179],"class_list":["post-398338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-critical-incident","tag-fatal","tag-investigation","tag-news","tag-police","tag-police-shooting","tag-shot","tag-siege","tag-standoff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398338","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=398338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}