{"id":585394,"date":"2026-04-04T17:20:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T17:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/585394\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T17:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T17:20:16","slug":"murder-charge-after-young-woman-found-unresponsive-at-home-in-wa-mining-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/585394\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder charge after young woman found unresponsive at home in WA mining town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">A woman has been charged with murder after a 24\u2011year\u2011old was found unresponsive in a very small regional mining town in Western Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Police were called about 11.40pm on Wednesday to a home in Laverton, about 950km to the east of Perth, after reports a woman had been located unresponsive inside a residence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Officers and paramedics performed emergency first aid before the woman was taken to Laverton Hospital, where she was declared dead shortly after arrival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Police say the two women were known to each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-178igh4-StyledParagraph e1s06mna1\">Know the news with the 7NEWS app: <a class=\"css-h2mhmv-StyledContextualLink e1s06mna0\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/app?utm_source=7NEWS&amp;utm_medium=contextual-link-app&amp;utm_campaign=7news-app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Download today Arrow<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">A 48\u2011year\u2011old Laverton woman has since been charged with one count of murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">She is expected to appear before the Perth Magistrates Court on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"css-6fiqrm-StyledLinkWrapper e1y7kr221\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/news\/australian-government-refuses-to-confirm-secret-sas-deployment-to-middle-east-as-iran-war-rages-on-c-22092841\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Government refuses to confirm SAS deployment to the Middle East<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xp0jgm-StyledTimeToRead e1y7kr223\">1 min read<\/p>\n<p><\/a><a class=\"css-6fiqrm-StyledLinkWrapper e1y7kr221\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/news\/young-girl-suffers-serious-injuries-after-atv-rollover-on-farm-at-yattalunga-north-of-adelaide-c-22092671\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Young girl suffers serious injuries after buggy flips on property<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xp0jgm-StyledTimeToRead e1y7kr223\">0 min read<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has been charged with murder after a 24\u2011year\u2011old was found unresponsive in a very small regional&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,48,2968,44,45,280266],"class_list":{"0":"post-585394","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-crime","11":"tag-murder","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-wa-news","14":"tag-western-australia-police"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585394","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=585394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}