{"id":643958,"date":"2026-06-17T18:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T18:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/643958\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T18:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T18:39:10","slug":"byker-murder-probe-live-boy-16-and-two-men-arrested-after-death-of-man-in-his-20s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/643958\/","title":{"rendered":"Byker murder probe LIVE: Boy, 16, and two men arrested after death of man in his 20s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A 16-year-old boy is among three people arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of a man in Newcastle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Police were called to a report of assault on Shields Road, in the Byker area of the city, at 7.25pm on Tuesday evening, Northumbria Police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A man aged in his 20s suffered serious injuries and was taken to hospital for treatment but died a short time later, officers said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police have cordoned off Shields Road after a man died following an attack\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0_Byker-cordon-1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"Police have cordoned off Shields Road after a man died following an attack\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Police have cordoned off Shields Road after a man died following an attack(Image: Newcastle Chronicle)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 16-year-old boy is among three people arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of a man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[128456,924,59,57,2875,58,7121,50,125931,23607,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-643958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-byker","tag-crime","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-great-north-air-ambulance-service","tag-greatbritain","tag-newcastle-upon-tyne","tag-news","tag-north-east-ambulance-service","tag-northumbria-police","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643958","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=643958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}