A man has died after being found critically injured in a home near Newcastle this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Emergency services were called to a unit block on Darby Street, Cooks Hill, about 3.20am today (Wednesday 10 December 2025), following reports of an assault.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officers attached to Newcastle City Police District attended and found a 53-year-old man inside a home unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The man was treated by NSW Ambulance paramedics; however, died at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His death is being treated as suspicious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A crime scene has been established and detectives from Newcastle City Police District have commenced an investigation.They are being assisted by State Crime Command\u2019s Homicide Squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man has died after being found critically injured in a home near Newcastle this morning. Emergency services were called to a unit block on Darby Street, Cooks Hill, about 3.20am today (Wednesday 10 December 2025), following reports of an assault. Officers attached to Newcastle City Police District attended and found a 53-year-old man inside … Continue reading “Man dies after being found critically injured in Cooks Hill home”<\/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-36464","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\/36464","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=36464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36465,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36464\/revisions\/36465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}