{"id":190438,"date":"2025-12-18T18:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T18:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/190438\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T18:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T18:59:09","slug":"homicide-probe-after-man-dies-of-injuries-in-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/190438\/","title":{"rendered":"Homicide probe after man dies of injuries in Hamilton"},"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]\">A homicide investigation was launched in Hamilton last night after a man died of his injuries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Police were called to a Lake Crescent property at around 6.15pm after reports that a person had been injured. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;Shortly after arrival, Police located a second person at the address who had a serious injury to their arm,&#8221; Detective Senior Sergeant Stephen Ambler said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The initial victim died at the scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The other person was in a stable condition at Waikato Hospital. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;Cordons remain in place at the address as Police work to determine who was involved and to locate them,&#8221; Ambler said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;Residents in the area can expect to see a Police presence for the time being while we progress these enquiries.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A homicide investigation was launched in Hamilton last night after a man died of his injuries. Police were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,9001,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-190438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-hamilton-waikato","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\/190438","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=190438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}