{"id":713491,"date":"2026-06-03T22:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T22:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/713491\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T22:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T22:40:09","slug":"elderly-couple-stabbed-intruder-shot-in-terrifying-nsw-home-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/713491\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderly couple stabbed, intruder shot in terrifying NSW home invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An elderly couple is fighting for life in hospital after a terrifying home invasion that left the male intruder shot.<\/p>\n<p>Police and emergency services were called to a rural property at Torrington, in NSW\u2019s New England region, shortly after midnight after receiving reports of a home invasion.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NSW Police generic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2214e54338f1b722649e0e4863d12dcf48da2dec.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Officers were called to the property shortly after midnight, where they found the elderly couple stabbed and the younger man shot.\u00a0nna\\advidler<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived, they were told a 75-year-old man and a 72-year-old woman were home at the property when a 34-year-old man entered the premises and allegedly stabbed both with a knife.<\/p>\n<p>The woman collapsed after she was stabbed in the chest and her husband was slashed across his stomach.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged attacker, who police say is not known to the couple, went out onto the property\u2019s verandah while the husband was able to call Triple Zero and emergency services raced to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Before officers arrived at the property, the younger man tried to re-enter the property when he was allegedly shot by the 75-year-old man.<\/p>\n<p>The elderly couple were treated at the scene and airlifted to the Gold Coast, both in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>The younger man was treated for a gunshot wound at the property and driven to Armidale Hospital under police guard. He is in a serious but stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>More to come \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An elderly couple is fighting for life in hospital after a terrifying home invasion that left the male&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-713491","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\/713491","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=713491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}