{"id":744692,"date":"2026-06-18T15:09:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/744692\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T15:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:09:14","slug":"father-dies-after-alleged-bashing-outside-strathaird-primary-school-in-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/744692\/","title":{"rendered":"Father dies after alleged bashing outside Strathaird Primary School in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A father has died after he was allegedly savagely beaten by two men outside a Melbourne primary school during pick-up time.<\/p>\n<p>A Clyde North man, 63, was rushed to hospital with critical injuries after he was allegedly assaulted at Strathaird Reserve about 3.15pm last Friday. He died in hospital six days later.<\/p>\n<p>Police allege a man aged 21, of no fixed address, and another Narre Warren South man, 22, assaulted the father.<\/p>\n<p>They have been charged with recklessly causing serious injury.<\/p>\n<p>Both men are in custody as homicide detectives consider alternate charges, following post-mortem results.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice believe the parties involved were known to each other,\u201d a spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged incident happened near Strathaird Primary School in Melbourne\u2019s southeast.<\/p>\n<p>The school offered children who witnessed the alleged incident wellbeing support in a letter sent to parents.<\/p>\n<p>A witness told the <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/education\/regions\/victoria\/school-dad-dies-following-brutal-pickup-time-attack-witnessed-by-hundreds-of-terrified-children\/news-story\/5f992384d0d56088376133b0279368ac\" target=\"_blank\" data-tgev=\"event119\" data-tgev-container=\"bodylink\" data-tgev-order=\"5f992384d0d56088376133b0279368ac\" data-tgev-label=\"education\" data-tgev-metric=\"ev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Herald Sun<\/a> lots of kids saw the assault and were \u201cshaken up\u201d by the shocking event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were terrified. I could see him lying on the ground and he couldn\u2019t get up. He appeared to be knocked out,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe his child was there when it happened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were two men standing over him. They were yelling at him and hurting him with a pole or a metal torch. There were people yelling at them to stop,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was quite quick, then they jumped in their car and drove off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis should never have happened at a school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another parent who pulled over in his car to provide first aid when he saw the man on the ground, and said the victim was incoherent with blood on the back of his head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI made sure everyone was calling the police and ambulance,\u201d David Wade told the Herald Sun.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said he felt dizzy and like vomiting. Poor old bloke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was home-time. It\u2019s the most popular school exit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just outraged they did it in front of the kids. I don\u2019t care what their problem is. Just sort it out somewhere else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police urged anyone with footage or information about the incident to contact Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n<p>Read related topics:<a class=\"topic_tag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/topics\/melbourne\" data-tgev-container=\"story-topic-links\" data-tgev-label=\"Melbourne\" data-tgev-order=\"1\" data-tgev-metric=\"npv\" data-tgev=\"event10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melbourne<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A father has died after he was allegedly savagely beaten by two men outside a Melbourne primary school&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,187436,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-744692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-newswire-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744692","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=744692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}