{"id":758031,"date":"2022-01-20T02:08:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T02:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/20\/irish-police-arrest-a-second-suspect-in-teacher-ashling-murphys-slaying\/"},"modified":"2022-01-20T02:08:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T02:08:10","slug":"irish-police-arrest-a-second-suspect-in-teacher-ashling-murphys-slaying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/20\/irish-police-arrest-a-second-suspect-in-teacher-ashling-murphys-slaying\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish police arrest a second suspect in teacher Ashling Murphy&#8217;s slaying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Irish-police-arrest-a-second-suspect-in-teachers-slaying.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"9aV1oJPCqvA\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hundreds of tributes paid to murdered school teacher Ashling Murphy\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9aV1oJPCqvA?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Jan. 19 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> Irish police arrested a second man on Wednesday in connection with the killing of teacher Ashling Murphy.<\/p>\n<p>The new arrest comes a day after another man &#8212; a 31-year-old Slovakian &#8212; was arrested as he was discharged from a Dublin hospital.\n<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s being questioned in Tullamore, the town where Murphy was killed.<\/p>\n<p>The second man arrested is in his 30s and is being held at the police station in the Eastern Region of Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s under suspicion for withholding information from the police.<\/p>\n<p>The first arrest is the main suspect of Murphy&#8217;s death. A decision on whether to charge him is expected to come later Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy was killed on the afternoon of Jan. 12 while she was jogging in Tullamore. She was strangled and her body was found on the jogging path the same day.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the 23-year-old primary school teacher and musician tried to fight off her attacker using a set of keys.<\/p>\n<p>Their investigation led to a hospital in Dublin where a man checked in Thursday with stab wounds.<\/p>\n<p>He became the main suspect of the investigation, and officers believe some of his wounds were self-inflicted.\n<\/p>\n<p>Murphy&#8217;s funeral was held on Tuesday with hundreds of people paying tribute to her life.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 19 (UPI) &#8212; Irish police arrested a second man on Wednesday in connection with the killing of teacher Ashling Murphy. The new arrest comes a day after another man &#8212; a 31-year-old Slovakian &#8212; was arrested as he was discharged from a Dublin hospital. He&#8217;s being questioned in Tullamore, the town where Murphy was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":758032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}