{"id":101445,"date":"2025-10-26T04:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T04:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/101445\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T04:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T04:44:09","slug":"homicide-inquiry-launched-after-death-of-man-critically-injured-in-te-puke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/101445\/","title":{"rendered":"Homicide inquiry launched after death of man critically injured in Te Puke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4KAEKN8_RNZD0321_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"713\" alt=\"RNZ\/Reece Baker\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nPolice say they will increase their presence in the Maneoka area in the coming days.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ REECE BAKER\n<\/p>\n<p>Police have launched a homicide investigation after the death of a man who was critically injured in Te Puke on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>They received a report of a person being admitted to hospital with critical gun shot injuries at about 10.30am.<\/p>\n<p>The man died on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Police were working to establish what happened and to locate those involved.<\/p>\n<p>There would be an increased police presence in the Maneoka area in the coming days, they said.<\/p>\n<p>Police want to hear from anyone who may be able to provide information or who has CCTV or dashcam footage in the Maneoka area on Saturday 25 October between 10-11am.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information can contact the police online, via 105 or anonymously on 0800 555 111 and quote reference number 251025\/0395.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say they will increase their presence in the Maneoka area in the coming days. Photo: RNZ \/&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-101445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}