{"id":813493,"date":"2026-07-21T02:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T02:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/813493\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T02:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T02:58:12","slug":"person-in-custody-after-body-found-child-injured-in-perths-south-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/813493\/","title":{"rendered":"Person in custody after body found, child injured in Perth&#8217;s south-east"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Two crime scenes have been established in Perth&#8217;s south-east after a body was discovered and a teenage girl was found injured in a neighbouring street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police say they were called to an address in Bentley at 6:25am and found a person dead.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Three police officers stand behind police tape on the front verge of a house in a suburban street.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/b0470d242fb71ff9ff0839411afafa4f.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\">The house has been cordoned off as police investigate the incident. (ABC News: Courtney Withers)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">An injured person was then taken to hospital after being found nearby in Cannington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">St John&#8217;s confirmed a girl under the age of 15 was taken by ambulance to Perth Children&#8217;s Hospital.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A police officer kneels down next to a police vehicle at a crime scene marked by police tape at an intersection.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/cb9c62b93c5ea08b3999ee03e90f97ea.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 have set up another crime scene in Cannington after a girl was found injured. (ABC News: Courtney Withers)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police said another person had been taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;This is a contained incident and there are no ongoing concerns for public safety,&#8221; a police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Traffic in the area was brought to a standstill, with Albany Highway closed north of the Westfield Carousel shopping centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The crime scene sits in a largely commercial area of the suburb, with businesses lining either side of the street.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Workers from nearby stores told the ABC they had spoken with authorities, with police attending businesses in search of CCTV footage of the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police are expected to hold a press conference about the incident at 11:30am.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A police officer in hi-vis stands in front of other officers and a police vehicle at a crime scene at an intersection.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/51f6153565ed9e68595bbd542fe4b2d7.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\">Traffic in Cannington has been diverted around the intersection of Manning Road and Mallard Way.\u00a0 (ABC News: Courtney Withers)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two crime scenes have been established in Perth&#8217;s south-east after a body was discovered and a teenage girl&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,107799,185005,1348,388371,48,17724,44,17726,388372,17725,86,1158,45],"class_list":["post-813493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bentley","tag-body-found","tag-breaking-news","tag-cannington","tag-crime","tag-emergency-services","tag-news","tag-perth-breaking-news","tag-perth-death","tag-perth-emergency","tag-perth-news","tag-police","tag-wa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813493","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=813493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}