{"id":593880,"date":"2026-04-08T17:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/593880\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T17:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:58:10","slug":"man-shot-by-police-during-welfare-check-north-of-brisbane-charged-with-assaulting-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/593880\/","title":{"rendered":"Man shot by police during welfare check north of Brisbane charged with assaulting officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A man who was shot by police after his mother called officers to conduct a welfare check last week has been charged with assaulting police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police say officers were called to Akebia Street in Arana Hills, north of Brisbane, on April 1 and <a class=\"Link_link__kR0xA Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2026-04-01\/arana-hills-police-shooting\/106521990\" data-component=\"Link\" data-uri=\"coremedia:\/\/article\/106521990\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">were attempting to speak with the 19-year-old man when an altercation occurred<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">It is alleged the man produced a large kitchen knife and was subsequently shot twice in the abdomen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">He was taken to hospital where he remains in a stable condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The man has been charged with three counts of serious assault of a police officer whilst armed with a weapon, and one count of serious assault of a police officer performing function whilst armed with a weapon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">He is expected to face a bedside hearing this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The circumstances of the shooting are under investigation by the Ethical Standards Command with oversight by the Crime and Corruption Commission.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Last week, police confirmed the officers involved had body-worn cameras, which were operating at the time of the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">They said a taser was also deployed during the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who was shot by police after his mother called officers to conduct a welfare check last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[283579,64,63,651,514,44,6646,4106,171971],"class_list":{"0":"post-593880","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-arana-hills","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-brisbane","12":"tag-mental-health","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-police-shooting","15":"tag-queensland-police","16":"tag-welfare-check"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593880","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=593880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}