{"id":789728,"date":"2026-07-09T18:31:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/789728\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T18:31:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:31:27","slug":"sixteen-year-old-boy-charged-with-murder-after-stabbing-in-taree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/789728\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixteen-year-old boy charged with murder after stabbing in Taree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A 16-year-old boy has been charged with murder after a man was found with critical stab wounds on the NSW Mid North Coast, with police confirming the pair knew each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Emergency services were called to a home in Taree at around 5am on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A 36-year-old man died at the scene\u00a0after he tried to seek help at a neighbour\u2019s house.<\/p>\n<p>Superintendent Grant Erickson said NSW Police established Strike Force Hexalon to investigate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;This is a sad and tragic event, and I&#8217;m acutely aware there are members of the community who may have information in relation to this event,&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;I want to take this opportunity to thank certain members of the community coming forward with information that we&#8217;ve gathered and collated with forensic and other evidence that we&#8217;ve got.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Superintendent Erickson said the deceased man was not known to police, but the teenager was.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police vehicles on a suburban street.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783621885_19_1d4ed4b62bdc95b86c0b93bbae2af27c.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Police were called to a home in Taree at around 5am on Monday. (ABC Mid North Coast: Nakita Jager)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The 16-year-old was arrested at a home in Taree\u00a0on Wednesday and later charged with murder.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Superintendent Erickson said the teenager and man knew each other, but were &#8220;not associates&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A police officer looks at the camera at the station\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/aa5435c366cea5d99fbf3e93755d8221.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Superintendent Grant Erickson said the man sought help in a neighbour&#8217;s home, where he died from critical injuries. (ABC News Mid North Coast: Nakita Jager)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The teen appeared before the Parramatta Children&#8217;s Court today, where he did not apply for bail, which was formally refused.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The matter will return to Taree Children&#8217;s Court on September 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 16-year-old boy has been charged with murder after a man was found with critical stab wounds on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[372337,43,54965,44,372336,372335,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-789728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-16-year-old-murder-charge-taree","tag-headlines","tag-murder-charge","tag-news","tag-taree-stabbing","tag-teenage-stabbing-taree","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789728","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=789728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}