{"id":368063,"date":"2026-03-27T13:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/368063\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T13:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:08:10","slug":"murder-investigation-launched-after-death-of-man-in-portadown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/368063\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder investigation launched after death of man in Portadown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have launched a murder investigation after the death of a man aged in his 40s in Portadown in Co Armagh.<\/p>\n<p>Two men aged in their 50s have been arrested on suspicion of murder.<\/p>\n<p>Police received a report at around 11pm on Thursday night that a man had been injured during an altercation at a property in the Ranfurley Road area of Portadown.<\/p>\n<p>Officers and ambulance service personnel attended, but the man was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The two suspects remained in custody on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Launching a murder investigation, detectives from the Police Service of Northern Ireland\u2019s major investigation team appealed to anyone with information to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>They have also asked for anyone with dashcam or doorbell camera footage from the area to make it available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have launched a murder investigation after the death of a man aged in his 40s in Portadown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-368063","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368063","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=368063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}