{"id":371959,"date":"2026-01-15T20:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T20:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/371959\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T20:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T20:01:08","slug":"manhunt-for-acocks-green-murder-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/371959\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhunt for Acocks Green murder suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police have launched an appeal for help in finding a suspect wanted in connection with the murder of a young man who was stabbed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chris Ikouara, 19, was found fatally injured at an address on Olton Boulevard East in the Acocks Green area of Birmingham shortly before 14:00 GMT on Tuesday, and was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">West Midlands Police officers have been trying to locate Zachariah Liburd, 22, and have appealed for the public&#8217;s help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Det Supt Jim Munro said: &#8220;What we need now is for anyone with information on Liburd, no matter how insignificant you think it might be \u2013 to get in touch with us straight away.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have launched an appeal for help in finding a suspect wanted in connection with the murder of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-371959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}