Police have launched a critical incident investigation following the shooting death of a man in the Lake Macquarie region today.
\nAs part of inquiries into the death of a 27-year-old woman, officers from Lake Macquarie Police District attended a home in Vena Street, Glendale, just before 9am (Thursday 14 March 2019).
\nWhen officers confronted a 21-year-old man at the property, he allegedly threatened them with a knife before he was shot by police.
\nThe man died at the scene.
\nA Critical Incident Team will now investigate the circumstances surrounding the incident, including the discharge of a police firearm.
\nInquiries are continuing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police have launched a critical incident investigation following the shooting death of a man in the Lake Macquarie region today. As part of inquiries into the death of a 27-year-old woman, officers from Lake Macquarie Police District attended a home in Vena Street, Glendale, just before 9am (Thursday 14 March 2019). When officers confronted a … Continue reading “Critical incident investigation launched over man's death – Glendale”<\/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-1883","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\/1883","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=1883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}