A man has been charged with murder after the death of another man during a Lake Macquarie home invasion earlier this week.
\nEmergency services were called to the home on Lonus Avenue, Whitebridge, about 2.30am on Monday (17 December 2018), and found a 60-year-old man with a serious injury to his arm.
\nThe man was treated at the scene by paramedics; however, he died at John Hunter Hospital a short time later.
\nOfficers from Lake Macquarie Police District established a crime scene and commenced inquiries.
\nPolice will allege that three people \u2013 with their faces covered and armed with baseball bats and knives \u2013 broke into the home and attacked the man in his bedroom.
\nThe man\u2019s two brothers were home at the time but were not injured.
\nFollowing inquiries by detectives from Lake Macquarie Police District, assisted by the State Crime Command\u2019s Homicide Squad, officers arrested a 19-year-old man at a home on Warners Bay Road, Charlestown, about 8.45am yesterday (Wednesday 19 December 2018).
\nHe was taken to Belmont Police Station and charged with murder.
\nThe man was refused bail to appear at Newcastle Local Court today (Thursday 20 December 2018).
\nInvestigations are continuing and police are still seeking two men in relation to the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man has been charged with murder after the death of another man during a Lake Macquarie home invasion earlier this week. Emergency services were called to the home on Lonus Avenue, Whitebridge, about 2.30am on Monday (17 December 2018), and found a 60-year-old man with a serious injury to his arm. The man was … Continue reading “Man charged with murder over Lake Macquarie home invasion death”<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}