{"id":235465,"date":"2026-01-16T00:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T00:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/235465\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T00:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T00:04:10","slug":"waitarere-beach-shooting-girl-left-traumatised-police-yet-to-interview-injured-trio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/235465\/","title":{"rendered":"Wait\u0101rere Beach shooting: Girl left \u2018traumatised\u2019, police yet to interview injured trio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">Manawat\u016b Area Commander Ross Grantham said this morning that police were dealing with an incredibly tragic situation and acknowledged that many people were looking for answers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt is important to remember alongside that, however, that we still have three people critically injured and fighting for their lives in hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAnd we have a young girl who, while uninjured, is incredibly traumatised by what has occurred.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cNo child should ever have to experience what this young girl did that night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">Grantham acknowledged that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/waitarere-beach-shooting-sister-says-brother-was-working-on-court-documents-before-death\/563QCFT5W5CLJEVFSNRY52LWUQ\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/waitarere-beach-shooting-sister-says-brother-was-working-on-court-documents-before-death\/563QCFT5W5CLJEVFSNRY52LWUQ\/\">comments had been made by members of Timmins\u2019 family<\/a>. However, authorities would not be commenting on those statements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe know there is a significant level of public interest in this matter, and we are committed to providing as much information as quickly as we can.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cHowever, it\u2019s also imperative that our investigation team is given the time and space they need to conduct a robust and thorough investigation so that we can provide the families and loved ones of those involved with the answers they need and deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">A scene examination is still underway at the Wait\u0101rere Beach Rd property. No autopsy had yet been carried out on Timmins\u2019 body, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cOfficers are also yet to interview the three critically injured people, who are currently unable to speak to police.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manawat\u016b Area Commander Ross Grantham said this morning that police were dealing with an incredibly tragic situation and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[139271,29893,7972,3043,6868,58217,10933,5620,101,1362,111,43,139,69,675,3048,7819,88450,1961,61,43272,13082,137506,686,9184,4741],"class_list":["post-235465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-alerting","tag-authorities","tag-beach","tag-call","tag-girl","tag-incredibly","tag-injured","tag-interview","tag-left","tag-made","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-police","tag-said","tag-shooting","tag-silent","tag-this","tag-to","tag-traumatised","tag-trio","tag-waitrere","tag-week","tag-yet","tag-young"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235465","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=235465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}