{"id":520139,"date":"2026-03-05T10:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T10:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/520139\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T10:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T10:57:11","slug":"man-dead-after-shooting-in-melbournes-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/520139\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dead after shooting in Melbourne&#8217;s west"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\ufeff man has been fatally shot in Melbourne&#8217;s west overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to the corner of Snipe Drive and Spadefoot Place after midnight in Strathtulloh at about 12.40am.<\/p>\n<p>They found a 36-year-old man with critical injuries in the street.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/a1b8e188-82ea-495b-8b03-3d4b826b205d.png\"   alt=\"An argument is believed to have taken place before multiple shots were fired.\"\/>An argument is believed to have taken place before multiple shots were fired. (Nine)<\/p>\n<p>It is believed two men, the 36-year-old and a 63-year-old, went to the area before an argument broke out with a third man, leading to several shots being fired.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services worked on the injured man, but he died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The third man fled the scene and remains on the run.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Police say everyone involved is known to each other, and is urging anyone with information to come forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A\ufeff man has been fatally shot in Melbourne&#8217;s west overnight. Police were called to the corner of Snipe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-520139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520139","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=520139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}