{"id":245869,"date":"2026-01-15T10:13:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/245869\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T10:13:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:13:06","slug":"murder-investigation-following-death-of-man-in-co-derry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/245869\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder investigation following death of man in Co Derry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A murder investigation is under way following the death of a man in Coleraine, Co Derry.<\/p>\n<p>Wayne Reid, 43, was pronounced dead at an address in the Society Court area.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they believe he may have been involved in an altercation, sometime between Thursday 8 January and 10 Saturday January, in the Society Court or Society Street areas of Coleraine.<\/p>\n<p>A 33-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Chief Inspector Hazel Miller appealed for anyone with information to come forward to police.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One man, aged 33, has been arrested on suspicion of murder, and remains in police custody at this time,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Detectives are working at pace to establish the exact circumstances surrounding Mr Reid&#8217;s death and I am appealing for anyone with information that could assist our investigation to come forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A murder investigation is under way following the death of a man in Coleraine, Co Derry. Wayne Reid,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-245869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245869","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=245869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}