{"id":274776,"date":"2026-02-09T04:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T04:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/274776\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T04:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T04:39:08","slug":"person-critically-injured-after-central-christchurch-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/274776\/","title":{"rendered":"Person critically injured after central Christchurch assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A person has been arrested after an assault left a person critically injured in central Christchurch this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services received reports of a &#8220;grievous assault&#8221; on Fitzgerald Ave at around 12.20pm on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Police said one person had been taken into custody at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>St John said an ambulance and a rapid response unit responded.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One patient, in critical condition, has been transported to Christchurch Hospital,&#8221; a St John spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>Footage captured by 1News at the scene showed the front of a property cordoned off, with what appeared to be clothes strewn on the driveway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person has been arrested after an assault left a person critically injured in central Christchurch this afternoon.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[158,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-274776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-christchurch-canterbury","9":"tag-crime-and-justice","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}