{"id":300185,"date":"2025-10-12T15:35:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T05:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=300185"},"modified":"2025-10-12T15:35:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T05:35:34","slug":"melbourne-train-passenger-dies-in-police-custody-at-railway-station-in-northcote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=300185","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne train passenger dies in police custody at railway station in Northcote"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A passenger has died after being arrested at a&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/news\/melbourne\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Melbourne<\/a>&nbsp;train station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 63-year-old man was taken into custody at Merri&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/travel\/trains?page=1\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">railway<\/a>&nbsp;station, in Northcote, about 9.45pm on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The man, who police said appeared drug-affected, had been riding Mernda line when another commuter flagged down police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Protective Service Officers \u2014 early career police officers who are responsible for community safety on public transport \u2014 exited the train with the 63-year-old when he got off at Merri railway station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The man \u201ccontinued to behave erratically on the railway platform,\u201d Victoria Police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police called an ambulance for the man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They then put him in handcuffs due to \u201cincreasing erratic behaviour\u201d, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The man stopped breathing shortly after and could not be revived by police officers attempting CPR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The homicide squad are investigating the incident with oversight from Professional Standards Command.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The man was taken into custody at Merri railway station before he stopped breathing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":181558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9770,47],"tags":[993,18422,10597,8],"class_list":["post-300185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro-trains-melbourne","category-rail-news","tag-melbourne","tag-merri-railway-station","tag-northcote","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=300185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300186,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300185\/revisions\/300186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/181558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}