{"id":749792,"date":"2026-06-21T00:21:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T00:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/749792\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T00:21:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T00:21:33","slug":"police-investigate-fatal-shooting-in-melbourne-suburb-of-ascot-vale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/749792\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigate fatal shooting in Melbourne suburb of Ascot Vale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A man in his 30s has been fatally shot in Melbourne&#8217;s inner-north-west overnight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">About 12:15am, officers were called to North Street in Ascot Vale, where they found the man with suspected gunshot wounds. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;He was taken to hospital in a critical condition but later died,&#8221; a Victoria Police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Homicide Squad detectives are investigating how the man was injured and have set up a crime scene in the street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Officers were also seen examining parked cars and various retail stores nearby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">No arrests have been made and detectives are urging anyone with information to contact Crime Stoppers.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 30s has been fatally shot in Melbourne&#8217;s inner-north-west overnight.\u00a0 About 12:15am, officers were called&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,48,11224,5315,44,1158,4905],"class_list":["post-749792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-crime","tag-fatal","tag-investigation","tag-news","tag-police","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749792","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=749792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}