A homicide investigation is underway and two areas cordoned off in Auckland’s Mt Wellington after a man who presented to a medical centre with critical injuries died in hospital.<\/p>\n
Police said a man arrived at a medical centre on Lunn Ave with critical injuries at around 12.15pm.<\/p>\n
Detective Inspector Scott Beard said police were contacted and units responded to the area, including the police Eagle helicopter.<\/p>\n
“After arriving at the medical centre, the man was transported to Auckland City Hospital in a critical condition,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Despite best efforts, the man has died in hospital this afternoon.”<\/p>\n
At this early stage, Beard said it was understood the victim got into an altercation with occupants of a hatchback vehicle on Harris Rd in Mount Wellington earlier in the afternoon.<\/p>\n
“During this altercation, the victim has sustained stabbing injuries, before both parties left the scene. The victim later presented at the medical centre with his injuries.”<\/p>\n
The vehicle believed to be involved in the early incident was located by police on Laud Ave in Ellerslie.<\/p>\n
Scene examinations were being carried out at both locations as part of the investigation.<\/p>\n
Police have been speaking with people, including residents around the two scenes that were cordoned off, Beard said.<\/p>\n
“Mt Wellington residents will continue to see an increased police presence across the area over the coming days in response to what has occurred.”<\/p>\n
Anyone who had witnessed the incident, or who had dashcam or other CCTV footage was asked to come forward by contacting 105.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A homicide investigation is underway and two areas cordoned off in Auckland’s Mt Wellington after a man who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-169200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-auckland","tag-crime-and-justice","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\/169200","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=169200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}