{"id":137551,"date":"2025-11-16T07:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T07:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/137551\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T07:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T07:40:10","slug":"homicide-investigation-launched-after-person-dies-near-kaitaia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/137551\/","title":{"rendered":"Homicide investigation launched after person dies near Kaitaia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">One person is in custody and a homicide investigation launched after an assault at a Kaitaia property left one person dead. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Emergency services were called to a reported assault at an address on Okahu Rd, just south of the main township shortly after 12.30pm, where one person was found in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;Despite emergency services best efforts, they sadly died at the scene,&#8221; Detective Inspector Geoff McCarthy said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">He said police arrested a person in relation to the incident at a separate address a short time later and were not seeking anyone else at this stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Cordons were in place, and a scene examination would take place on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">A 57-year-old woman was due to appear in Kaitaia District Court tomorrow, with charges to be confirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person is in custody and a homicide investigation launched after an assault at a Kaitaia property left&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[67,111,43,139,1067,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-137551","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-new-zealand","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-northland","13":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137551","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=137551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}