{"id":627919,"date":"2026-06-08T18:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T18:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/627919\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T18:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T18:14:09","slug":"murder-inquiry-opens-after-boy-hit-by-vehicle-in-brentwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/627919\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder inquiry opens after boy hit by vehicle in Brentwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Det Ch Insp Louise Metcalfe said: &#8220;To residents who we have not yet spoken to, I would urge you to please review any CCTV you have from 08:00 BST on Sunday 7 June right through to 19:00 and please get in touch through our dedicated public portal which has been set up for this incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re working hard to build a full picture of the circumstances around it, and I&#8217;d like to thank those who have already come forward to provide their accounts of what happened.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ch Insp Terry Fisher, Brentwood district commander, added: &#8220;I&#8217;m acutely aware that this incident is likely to have a significant impact in our community, and I know the investigation team is doing everything possible to fully understand the circumstances and progress this appropriately.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The loss of a child is every parent&#8217;s nightmare, and I would ask that this family&#8217;s privacy is fully respected at this time, both in person and online.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Det Ch Insp Louise Metcalfe said: &#8220;To residents who we have not yet spoken to, I would urge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-627919","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627919","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=627919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}