{"id":216291,"date":"2025-12-29T12:42:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T12:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/216291\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T12:42:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T12:42:06","slug":"man-found-dead-identified-as-suspect-in-bangor-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/216291\/","title":{"rendered":"Man found dead identified as suspect in Bangor incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The PSNI has confirmed that a man found dead in Bangor on Saturday is Jonathan Baker who was being sought in connection with the attempted murder of two people on Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n<p>A woman in her 50s and a man in his 20s were injured in the incident at Chippendale Avenue, when a man armed with a hammer and knife entered a residential property and assaulted them.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect fled the scene on foot, still armed, the PSNI said.<\/p>\n<p>The two people who were injured have since been discharged from hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The body of a 54-year-old man was found on 27 December and has since been identified as Jonathan Baker.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives said they are not seeking anyone else in connection with their ongoing investigation into the attempted murder of two people in Bangor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The PSNI has confirmed that a man found dead in Bangor on Saturday is Jonathan Baker who was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-216291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}