A homicide investigation has been launched after the death of a man in New Plymouth last night.<\/p>\n
Emergency services were called to the scene on St Aubyn Street shortly before 7pm, after a report of an altercation occurring.<\/p>\n
On arrival, a man was found with critical injuries. CPR was performed, however he died at the scene.<\/p>\n
Two people were arrested. One of them, a 44-year-old man, has been charged with murder and is due to appear today in the New Plymouth District Court.<\/p>\n
The second person was released without charge.<\/p>\n
A scene guard has been in place overnight, and cordons will remain in place today while a scene examination is carried out.<\/p>\n
Part of St Aubyn Street remains closed this morning, and motorists should avoid the area if possible, or expect delays.<\/p>\n
Police would like to hear from anyone who might have witnessed this incident unfolding, or who has information about those involved.<\/p>\n
If you can help, please use our 105 service, using reference number 251119\/8652.<\/p>\n
ENDS<\/p>\n
Issued by Police Media Centre<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A homicide investigation has been launched after the death of a man in New Plymouth last night. Emergency…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-144992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144992","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=144992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}