{"id":5001,"date":"2025-07-19T05:00:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T05:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/5001\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T05:00:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T05:00:04","slug":"armed-man-shot-dead-by-police-in-townsville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/5001\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed man shot dead by police in Townsville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An armed man has been shot dead by police after an incident in Townsville, Queensland.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were called to \ufeffMcKinley Street and The Strand in North Ward about 9.50am today over reports that a man was armed with a machete and knife.<\/p>\n<p>P\ufeffolice said the armed man approached officers and was shot in the chest.<\/p>\n<p>Police said medical assistance was given, but the man had died. \ufeff<\/p>\n<p>No officers or members of the public were injured during the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffThe Ethical Standards Command, with oversight by the Crime and Corruption Commission, will investigate the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An armed man has been shot dead by police after an incident in Townsville, Queensland. Officers were called&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-5001","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\/5001","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=5001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}