{"id":20638,"date":"2026-08-24T00:01:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T14:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/?p=20638"},"modified":"2026-08-24T00:01:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T14:01:02","slug":"hume-shooting-at-wildwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/2026\/08\/24\/hume-shooting-at-wildwood\/","title":{"rendered":"HUME: Shooting at Wildwood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police have charged a man following a shooting in Wildwood on Wednesday night (Aug. 19).<br>A 37-year-old Meadow Heights man was allegedly shot in the torso following a dispute with the occupants at a property on Wildwood Rd about 7.20pm.<br>A 56-year-old Wildwood man was arrested on Thursday (Aug. 20) and has since been charged with one count of intentionally cause serious injury. The man was to appear before court.<br>The 37-year-old remains unaccounted for, and police have significant concerns for his welfare and believe it is likely he has succumbed to his injuries.<br>Detectives are continuing to appeal for anyone who has information about the whereabouts of the man, or who saw a black Mitsubishi Triton ute travelling through the Greenvale, Sunbury, Bulla, Oaklands Junction and Wildwood areas on Wednesday night and early Thursday morning to contact police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have charged a man following a shooting in Wildwood on Wednesday night (Aug. 19).A 37-year-old Meadow Heights man was allegedly shot in the torso following a dispute with the occupants at a property on Wildwood Rd about 7.20pm.A 56-year-old Wildwood man was arrested on Thursday (Aug. 20) and has since been charged with one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_siteseo_robots_primary_cat":"none","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20643,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20638\/revisions\/20643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}