Police are investigating following a stabbing in Newcastle last night.<\/p>\n
About 9.30pm (Friday 10 April 2015), a 24-year-old man was walking on Hunter Street, near a footbridge at Market Street, when he was approached by a man and an altercation took place.<\/p>\n
During the altercation the man produced a knife and stabbed the 24-year-old man in the stomach, before running away.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old man was taken by a friend to John Hunter Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n
Police from Newcastle Local Area Command were notified and have commenced an investigation.<\/p>\n
Investigators are hoping to speak with a man who may be able to assist with inquiries.<\/p>\n
He is described as Caucasian in appearance with lightly tanned skin, in his mid 20s, with a skinny build, and black hair. He was wearing a black hooded jumper, check pattern shorts, and a white cap.<\/p>\n
Police are appealing for anyone with information to come forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police are investigating following a stabbing in Newcastle last night. About 9.30pm (Friday 10 April 2015), a 24-year-old man was walking on Hunter Street, near a footbridge at Market Street, when he was approached by a man and an altercation took place. During the altercation the man produced a knife and stabbed the 24-year-old man … Continue reading “Police investigate stabbing – Newcastle”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio16","category-tcrn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}