{"id":170270,"date":"2025-12-05T23:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T23:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/170270\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T23:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T23:54:11","slug":"extra-police-in-auckland-suburbs-as-homicide-investigation-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/170270\/","title":{"rendered":"Extra police in Auckland suburbs as homicide investigation continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4JWV5SE_Selected_photo_1_jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"787\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nPolice cordon off the scene on Harris Road, Mt Wellington, after launching a homicide investigation.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Felix Walton\n<\/p>\n<p>Extra police are on duty in two Auckland suburbs throughout Saturday, as an investigation into a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/581021\/man-dies-after-stabbing-in-mt-wellington-homicide-investigation-launched\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fatal stabbing<\/a> is underway<\/p>\n<p>A homicide investigation was launched when an injured man arrived at a medical centre in Mt Wellington on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Inspector Scott Beard said the man was stabbed during a fight with people in a hatchback vehicle on Harris Road.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During this altercation, the victim has sustained stabbing injuries before both parties left the scene,&#8221; Beard said.<\/p>\n<p>After suffering multiple stab wounds, the man arrived at a medical centre on Lunn Avenue around 12.15pm.<\/p>\n<p>He was then quickly taken to Auckland Hospital, where he died Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Beard has asked anyone with information about the incident, including dashcam or CCTV footage, to come forward.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police cordon off the scene on Harris Road, Mt Wellington, after launching a homicide investigation. Photo: RNZ \/&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-170270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170270","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=170270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}