{"id":225783,"date":"2026-01-09T23:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T23:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/225783\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T23:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T23:07:10","slug":"homicide-inquiry-begins-after-man-fatally-shot-in-south-auckland-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/225783\/","title":{"rendered":"Homicide inquiry begins after man fatally shot in south Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4JV0ZQF_Image_9_jfif.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"590\" alt=\"Balfour Rd in Manurewa homicide\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\n<p>Photo: RNZ \/ Kim Baker-Wilson\n<\/p>\n<p>Police have launched a homicide investigation following the death of a man in the south Auckland suburb of Manurewa.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to Balfour Road around 11.10pm on Friday after reports that a man had been shot.<\/p>\n<p>The man was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Cordons remain in place, while police conduct a scene examination at the address.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4JV0ZQF_Image_5_jfif.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"590\" alt=\"Balfour Rd in Manurewa homicide\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\n<p>Photo: RNZ \/ Kim Baker-Wilson\n<\/p>\n<p>A postmortem will take place tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of the area can expect to see an increased police presence as they make enquiries.<\/p>\n<p>Police believe there is no ongoing risk to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information on the incident can contact police on the number 105, and can quote reference 260109\/6338.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4JV0ZQF_Image_7_jfif.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"590\" alt=\"Balfour Rd in Manurewa homicide\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\n<p>Photo: RNZ \/ Kim Baker-Wilson\n<\/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":"Photo: RNZ \/ Kim Baker-Wilson Police have launched a homicide investigation following the death of a man in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-225783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225783","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=225783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}