{"id":775391,"date":"2026-07-03T00:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T00:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/775391\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T00:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T00:42:15","slug":"teenager-charged-with-murder-after-death-of-boy-in-melbournes-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/775391\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager charged with murder after death of boy in Melbourne&#8217;s north"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A 16-year-old boy has been charged with murder after the death of a teenager in Melbourne&#8217;s north this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A staff member at the Craigieburn Community Hospital found a 15-year-old boy with stab wounds in the car park of the medical facility on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Despite attempts to resuscitate the boy, he died at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Detectives from Victoria Police&#8217;s Homicide Squad have now charged a 16-year-old boy with his murder.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The boy was remanded in custody to front a children&#8217;s court at a later date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A 20-year-old Beveridge man was arrested along with the boy yesterday morning, and has since been charged with criminal damage by fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police also arrested a 15-year-old girl overnight, charging her with affray and theft of a motor vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Both the man and girl have been bailed to front court at a later date.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A 15-year-old boy was arrested on Friday morning in relation to the death, and is being interviewed by police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Anyone who witnessed the incident, or who has footage or information, is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or <a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crimestoppersvic.com.au\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 16-year-old boy has been charged with murder after the death of a teenager in Melbourne&#8217;s north this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45387,25653,10966,48,1300,43,2968,44,27777,41,39,42,40,9963],"class_list":["post-775391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-arrest","tag-attack","tag-charge","tag-crime","tag-death","tag-headlines","tag-murder","tag-news","tag-stabbing","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775391","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=775391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}