{"id":107072,"date":"2025-10-29T13:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T13:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/107072\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T13:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T13:11:11","slug":"vehicle-of-interest-movements-sought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/107072\/","title":{"rendered":"Vehicle of interest movements sought"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police investigating the murder of Bill Maangi in Gisborne last month are seeking the movements of a vehicle of interest.<\/p>\n

Maangi, 36, was found critically injured on the front lawn of a property between Lytton Rd and Riperata St at around 4am on September 29 after he was shot.<\/p>\n

He died in Gisborne Hospital a short time later, despite efforts to save him.<\/p>\n

Detective Inspector Martin James said police were making good progress in the investigation but needed the public’s assistance.<\/p>\n

A Hyundai Sonata with the registration AFN215 was stolen from accommodation lodge Forrester House on Ormond Rd sometime between 7.30pm and midnight on September 28.<\/p>\n

\"Forrester<\/p>\n

Forrester House on Ormond Rd in Gisborne. (Source: Google Streetview)<\/p>\n

The vehicle was seen heading into Riperata St, turning left onto Lytton Rd, before turning right into the Elgin area.<\/p>\n

It was seen again at around 9am on September 29 in the Stout St\/Aberdeen Rd area.<\/p>\n

James said police recovered the vehicle from Churchill St on October 20.<\/p>\n

“We are urging anyone who may have information, or saw the pictured Hyundai Sonata at any time between Sunday 28 September and Monday 20 October, to please come forward immediately.”<\/p>\n

The vehicle was currently undergoing forensic examination.<\/p>\n

He earlier said: “Mr Maangi didn\u2019t deserve to die this way, and I urge those who know what happened to reach out to us.”<\/p>\n

Anyone with relevant information should contact police on 105.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police investigating the murder of Bill Maangi in Gisborne last month are seeking the movements of a vehicle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,12506,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-107072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-crime-and-justice","9":"tag-gisborne","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107072","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=107072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}