{"id":490099,"date":"2026-02-19T12:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T12:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/490099\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T12:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T12:22:08","slug":"teen-seriously-injured-after-stabbing-at-shopping-centre-near-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/490099\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen seriously injured after stabbing at shopping centre near Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A teenage boy has been taken to hospital with serious injuries after he was stabbed at a shopping centre south-west of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/melbourne\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Melbourne\">Melbourne<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to a mall on Malop Street in Geelong around 3.30pm following Triple Zero calls about an assault.<\/p>\n<p>Two boys were seen fighting in the shopping centre surrounded by a group of bystanders, believed to be known to the pair, watching on.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>A 17-year-old boy was found by police nearby with suspected stab wounds.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to hospital with serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Police believe the other person involved, along with several bystanders, fled the scene \ufeffand were last seen heading towards Yarra Street.<\/p>\n<p>A crime scene has been set up at the \ufeffshopping centre and surrounding areas.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives are appealing for witnesses or anyone who may have filmed the altercation to please come forward.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information or anyone who may have witnessed the incident is urged to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or to submit a confidential report log onto www.crimestoppersvic.com.au.<\/p>\n<p>NEVER MISS A STORY: Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenage boy has been taken to hospital with serious injuries after he was stabbed at a shopping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-490099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490099","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=490099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}