{"id":6574,"date":"2014-04-15T11:24:24","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T11:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/04\/15\/man-critically-ill-after-stabbing-in-erdington\/"},"modified":"2014-04-15T11:24:24","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T11:24:24","slug":"man-critically-ill-after-stabbing-in-erdington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2014\/04\/15\/man-critically-ill-after-stabbing-in-erdington\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Critically Ill After Stabbing in Erdington"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Investigation Has Been Launched <\/h3>\n<div>An investigation has been launched following a stabbing in Erdington last night (14 April) which left a man critically ill in hospital.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Emergency services were called to a report of a disturbance on Slade Road near the junction with St Thomas Road at around 10:50pm.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>On arrival they found a 24-year-old man with stab wounds. He was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Slade Road has been closed in both directions between Fentham Road and Abbey Road.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Chief Inspector Neil Hobson said: \u201cOur investigation is at a very early stage and we\u2019re currently following up several lines of enquiry, as well as speaking to witnesses and trawling CCTV footage.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cA young man is fighting for his life in hospital, so if anyone saw anything last night and has not yet spoken to us, I would urge them to come forward as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cSlade Road is likely to remain closed for much of this morning as it\u2019s vital we fully examine the crime scene during daylight hours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nIf anyone has any information about what happened or has any concerns they should call police on 101 or the independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investigation Has Been Launched An investigation has been launched following a stabbing in Erdington last night (14 April) which left a man critically ill in hospital. &#13; \u00a0 &#13; Emergency services were called to a report of a disturbance on Slade Road near the junction with St Thomas Road at around 10:50pm. &#13; \u00a0 &#13; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}