{"id":123441,"date":"2025-11-07T19:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T19:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/123441\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T19:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T19:57:08","slug":"woman-arrested-over-shooting-at-wellington-apartment-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/123441\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman arrested over shooting at Wellington apartment complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A person has been arrested in Palmerston North, connected with an apartment complex shooting where the victim of a &#8220;targeted attack&#8221; jumped from a balcony to escape a balaclava-wearing offender who was armed with a shotgun.<\/p>\n<p>Armed police were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2025\/11\/02\/armed-police-at-wellington-apartments-after-person-falls-from-balcony\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">called to the Pukehinau Flats<\/a> in Brooklyn at 3.35pm on Sunday after reports of gunfire.  <\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, police said a person wearing a balaclava and armed with a shotgun entered the apartments \u2013 firing in the hallway after an &#8220;altercation&#8221; with the victim broke out.  The victim was injured after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2025\/11\/05\/wgtn-shooting-man-jumped-off-balcony-to-escape-balaclava-clad-offender\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">jumping from the balcony<\/a> to escape. <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday evening, police said a 34-year-old woman was arrested in Palmerston North.  <\/p>\n<p>She was charged with aggravated robbery and committing a dangerous act with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.  She was due to appear in the Palmerston North District Court today.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Jocelyn Bell said another person of interest had also been identified. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We cannot rule out further charges in relation to this matter,&#8221; Bell said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We hope today\u2019s arrest will come as a relief to the Brooklyn and Te Aro communities, which we know have been shaken by this incident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Enquiries are ongoing, and further updates will be shared proactively.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person has been arrested in Palmerston North, connected with an apartment complex shooting where the victim of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,42,43,40,38,41,39,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-123441","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-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories","15":"tag-wellington"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123441","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=123441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}