{"id":490439,"date":"2026-02-19T15:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/490439\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T15:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:58:12","slug":"police-investigate-stabbing-of-17-year-old-at-geelong-shopping-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/490439\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigate stabbing of 17-year-old at Geelong shopping mall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A teenage boy has been taken to hospital with serious injuries following a stabbing at a Geelong shopping centre on Thursday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police were called to the Market Square shopping centre just after 3.30pm following reports of a fight between two boys in the mall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Witnesses said a group of teenage bystanders believed to be known to the pair watched them fight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A 17-year-old boy was later found by police injured nearby with suspected stab wounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He was transported to hospital with serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Detectives are still searching for the other person involved in the fight and the bystanders, who fled the scene and were last seen heading towards Yarra Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A crime scene has been established in the mall and the surrounding area as police process the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">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 online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenage boy has been taken to hospital with serious injuries following a stabbing at a Geelong shopping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,13658,111193,247825,247826,44,185814,27777,72398],"class_list":{"0":"post-490439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-geelong","11":"tag-mall","12":"tag-malop-street","13":"tag-market-square","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-shopping-centre","16":"tag-stabbing","17":"tag-teenage"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490439","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=490439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}