{"id":781492,"date":"2026-07-05T23:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T23:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/781492\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T23:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T23:30:09","slug":"man-charged-with-unlawful-striking-after-west-end-park-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/781492\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with unlawful striking after West End park death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A suspect has been charged over the death of a 66-year-old man after an alleged assault at a Brisbane park on the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police will allege a fight broke out between two men at the West End park, on the corner of Thomas and Vulture Streets, shortly after midnight on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The 27-year-old from Yeronga allegedly struck the older man, causing him to fall and injure his head. The 66-year-old was taken to hospital where he died from his injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The pair did not know each other, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The 27-year-old was arrested at Fortitude Valley on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">He has been charged with unlawful striking causing death and possessing dangerous drugs, and is due to face Brisbane Magistrates Court on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A suspect has been charged over the death of a 66-year-old man after an alleged assault at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[24278,64,63,48,1300,3899,44,369805,94,701,369803,369804,37283],"class_list":["post-781492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-assault","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-crime","tag-death","tag-injury","tag-news","tag-police-qld-police","tag-qld","tag-queensland","tag-unlawful-striking","tag-vulture-street","tag-west-end"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781492","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=781492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}