A critical incident investigation is underway after a man was shot by police at Mayfield this afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About 4.10pm (Saturday 15 February 2025), police were called to Hanbury Street, Mayfield, following a concern for welfare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police attached to Newcastle City Police District attended when a man ran from a unit block towards police allegedly armed with a meat cleaver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A Taser was deployed which was unsuccessful, and the man was shot by police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officers immediately rendered assistance to the man prior to the arrival of NSW Ambulance paramedics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The man \u2013 believed to be aged in his 40s \u2013 was taken John Hunter Hospital in a serious condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There were no other reports of injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A critical incident investigation team will now investigate the circumstances surrounding the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The investigation is also subject to an independent review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A critical incident investigation is underway after a man was shot by police at Mayfield this afternoon. About 4.10pm (Saturday 15 February 2025), police were called to Hanbury Street, Mayfield, following a concern for welfare. Police attached to Newcastle City Police District attended when a man ran from a unit block towards police allegedly armed … Continue reading “Critical incident declared after man shot by police – Newcastle City PD”<\/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-31355","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\/31355","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=31355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31356,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31355\/revisions\/31356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}