A man was also found critically injured and remains in hospital.<\/p>\n
Police have said the death is being treated as a homicide, and a visible police presence has remained in the Crichton area while inquiries continue. <\/p>\n
Police have previously indicated there is no ongoing risk to the wider public.<\/p>\n
A death notice published this week in the Otago Daily Times said Clark was \u201ctragically taken\u201d. <\/p>\n
She was the daughter of the late Jasper Clark and Joan Clark, and a sister and sister-in-law to extended family across South Otago. <\/p>\n
Her death comes just days after Clark delivered the eulogy at her father\u2019s funeral, following the death of Jasper Clark on January 11.<\/p>\n
Former colleagues described Clark as a highly respected and much-loved veterinarian with deep connections to the farming community. <\/p>\n
John Smart, who worked with Clark for about 30 years across Clutha Vets practices, said her death was \u201ca hell of a shock\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was a highly respected vet,\u201d he said. \u201cI know the whole community down there will be absolutely in mourning for the tragedy of losing Jillian.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another former colleague, Tony Smith, described Clark as \u201can amazing person\u201d who was deeply connected to her local area and the farming community she served.<\/p>\n
Funeral arrangements have not yet been announced.<\/p>\n
Ben Tomsett is a multimedia journalist based in Dunedin. He joined the Herald in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was also found critically injured and remains in hospital. Police have said the death is being…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18788,803,36173,634,42,8916,296,676,12898,96875,7570,47406,43,9629,675,146718,1240,40,38,41,39,17307,141744],"class_list":["post-253198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-clark","tag-continue","tag-continuing","tag-death","tag-headlines","tag-homicide","tag-into","tag-investigate","tag-investigation","tag-jillian","tag-longserving","tag-milton","tag-news","tag-otago","tag-police","tag-sherie","tag-south","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-vet","tag-veterinarian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253198","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=253198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}