{"id":131534,"date":"2025-11-12T17:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/131534\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T17:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:59:08","slug":"third-man-charged-with-murder-of-te-puke-man-tristan-oakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/131534\/","title":{"rendered":"Third man charged with murder of Te Puke man Tristan Oakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A third person has been charged with the murder of 29-year-old Tristan Oakes, who was shot in his Te Puke home last month.  <\/p>\n<p>Oakes died in hospital after being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2025\/10\/26\/homicide-probe-launched-after-man-shot-in-te-puke-dies-in-hospital\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">admitted with a gunshot wound<\/a> on the morning of Saturday, October 25. <\/p>\n<p>A few days later, two men, aged 39 and 40, were arrested and charged with murder.   <\/p>\n<p>Today, Detective Senior Sergeant Natalie Flowerdew-Brown said police had arrested a 24-year-old Te Puke man, who was also charged with murder.  <\/p>\n<p>It brought the total number of people charged with murder in the case to three. <\/p>\n<p>Flowerdew-Brown said three other Te Puke men, aged 29, 30, and 33, were also charged with burglary.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police would like to thank the community for their assistance and will continue to provide updates as the investigation progresses,&#8221; Flowerdew-Brown said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A third person has been charged with the murder of 29-year-old Tristan Oakes, who was shot in his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[67,29720,111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-131534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-crime-and-justice","9":"tag-matauranga","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131534","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=131534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}