{"id":131239,"date":"2025-11-12T13:23:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T13:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/131239\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T13:23:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T13:23:14","slug":"sunlive-oakes-death-third-person-charged-with-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/131239\/","title":{"rendered":"SunLive &#8211; Oakes death: Third person charged with murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A third person has been charged with the murder of Tristan Oakes in the Bay of Plenty town of Te Puke.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old was found critically injured from a gunshot wound at his home on October 25 and died in Tauranga Hospital the next day.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Senior Sergeant Natalie Flowerdew-Brown said police today arrested a 24-year-old Te Puke man and charged him with murder.<\/p>\n<p>The man is the third person charged with Oakes\u2019 murder.<\/p>\n<p>Police have also charged three men, aged 29, 30, and 33, all from Te Puke, with burglary.<\/p>\n<p>All six men are scheduled to appear in Tauranga District Court this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Discover more<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice would like to thank the community for their assistance and will continue to provide updates as the investigation progresses,\u201d Flowerdew-Brown said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A third person has been charged with the murder of Tristan Oakes in the Bay of Plenty town&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-131239","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\/131239","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=131239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}