{"id":529174,"date":"2026-03-09T16:51:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T16:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/529174\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T16:51:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T16:51:18","slug":"man-charged-with-murder-after-alleged-assault-and-robbery-in-perths-cbd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/529174\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with murder after alleged assault and robbery in Perth’s CBD"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police have charged a 37-year-old man with murder after he allegedly attacked a 62-year-old man in Perth’s CBD, causing him to fall and strike his head on the pavement.<\/p>\n

The incident occurred on Hay Street near Victoria Avenue just after 11pm on Friday night.<\/p>\n

The man was taken to Royal Perth Hospital but later died.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Police told the ABC the two men were not known to each other.<\/p>\n

\"Two<\/p>\n

The incident happened near the intersection of Hay Street and Victoria Avenue.\u00a0 (ABC News: Jasmine Hughes)<\/p>\n

It’s also alleged the accused stole property from the older man before leaving the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The man, from Scarborough, is facing five charges including murder, aggravated grievous bodily harm and aggravated robbery.<\/p>\n

Some of the charges relate to an earlier incident on the same night, with police alleging the same man was involved in stealing property from a 41-year-old man.<\/p>\n

He appeared in the Perth Magistrates Court on Sunday, where he was remanded in custody until his next appearance later this month.<\/p>\n

Witness ‘shocked’<\/p>\n

The ABC has spoken to several people who work in the area where the alleged incident happened.<\/p>\n

Alyssa Deering works at a pub nearby and said she saw the man being arrested, after entering at least two businesses on the street.<\/p>\n

“I was shocked because it was so close to us,” she said.<\/p>\n

“We all ran out to see what had happened and saw the man getting arrested.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have charged a 37-year-old man with murder after he allegedly attacked a 62-year-old man in Perth’s CBD,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[262926,43,262928,44,174846,262925,262927,86,41,39,42,40,45],"class_list":["post-529174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-coward-punch-in-perth","tag-headlines","tag-man-killed-in-perth-cbd","tag-news","tag-one-punch-attack","tag-perth-cbd-assault","tag-perth-cbd-coward-punch","tag-perth-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529174","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=529174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}