{"id":545262,"date":"2026-03-17T02:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T02:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/545262\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T02:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T02:24:09","slug":"police-arrest-man-over-death-in-western-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/545262\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest man over death in western Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A man has been arrested in relation to a death in western Victoria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The man was arrested after an incident in Horsham&#8217;s main street last night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Victoria Police said a man&#8217;s body was found in Jung, near Horsham, on the eastern side of the Henty Highway near Finlayson Road, just after 9am on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police said the man was believed to be about 60 years old, but had yet to be formally identified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The cause of his death was to be yet determined, but was being treated as suspicious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Last night, police were notified of a man behaving erratically on Firebrace Street in Horsham, about 300 kilometres west of Melbourne, at about 8pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police negotiated with the man, who was armed with a knife, before the 49-year old from Minyip was arrested at about 11pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The man was taken to hospital and is expected to be interviewed by homicide squad detectives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Henty Highway between Dooen School Road and Horsham-Minyip Road re-opened this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested in relation to a death in western Victoria. The man was arrested after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[259591,45387,64,63,10851,270038,1300,11554,44,660],"class_list":["post-545262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-10-keywords-max-here","tag-arrest","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dead","tag-dead-body","tag-death","tag-man","tag-news","tag-victoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545262","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=545262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}