{"id":932311,"date":"2026-10-18T06:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T06:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/932311\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T06:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T06:46:12","slug":"blacktown-man-93-arrested-over-alleged-sydney-shopping-centre-stabbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/932311\/","title":{"rendered":"Blacktown: Man, 93, arrested over alleged Sydney shopping centre stabbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 93-year-old man has been arrested after a woman was allegedly stabbed at a busy western <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/sydney-fp5\" class=\"sc-iRgEWu hHENWX\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney<\/a> shopping centre.<\/p>\n<p>The 79-year-old woman was seriously injured at Westpoint Shopping Centre on Patrick Street in Blacktown about 10am on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/a469b8ca2d6d113eb3ec72e775d6c1668ebe134673375695914a88786c8ababd.png\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">A 79-year-old woman was left with serious arm injuries following the incident.\u00a09News<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics treated the woman at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>She was taken to Westmead Hospital in a serious condition with arm injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/crime-5w4\" class=\"sc-iRgEWu hHENWX\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was arrested nearby<\/a> and taken to Blacktown Police Station.<\/p>\n<p>No charges have been laid.<\/p>\n<p>The man and woman are known to each other, police believe.<\/p>\n<p>Police have cordoned off part of the shopping centre as they investigate the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 93-year-old man has been arrested after a woman was allegedly stabbed at a busy western Sydney shopping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":932312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-932311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932311","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=932311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}