Attributable to Detective Senior Sergeant Natalie Flowerdew-Brown, Western Bay of Plenty Area Investigations Manager:<\/p>\n
A homicide investigation has been launched after the death of a man who was critically injured in Te Puke on Saturday.<\/p>\n
At around 10.30am, Police received a report of a person having been admitted to hospital with a critical gunshot wound.<\/p>\n
Today, despite best efforts by medical experts, the man died this morning.<\/p>\n
Police are now working to establish the full circumstances of what has occurred, and to locate those involved.<\/p>\n
A scene examination is taking place in the Manoeka area, and nearby residents can expect to see an ongoing Police presence in the coming days.<\/p>\n
Police would like to hear from anyone who may have CCTV or dashcam footage in the Manoeka area on Saturday 25 October between 10am and 11am.<\/p>\n
We would also like to speak with anyone who may have information that can assist in our investigation.<\/p>\n
If you can assist in our enquiries, please contact Police online through 105.police.govt.nz, clicking “Update Report” or by calling 105.<\/p>\n
Please use the reference number 251025\/0395.<\/p>\n
Information can also be provided anonymously through Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n
ENDS<\/p>\n
Issued by Police Media Centre<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Attributable to Detective Senior Sergeant Natalie Flowerdew-Brown, Western Bay of Plenty Area Investigations Manager: A homicide investigation has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-102197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102197","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=102197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}