on January 14<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe police initially said all four people had gunshot wounds – but the scene examination and post-mortem have now been completed.<\/p>\n
“As a result, Police now believe one person at the address received a wound consistent with being stabbed,” Central District crime manager Inspector Craig Sheridan said.<\/p>\n
“The three people who received wounds consistent with being shot remain in hospital in a stable condition.”<\/p>\n
Police say they’ve spoken to the three injured people as part of their investigation.<\/p>\n
In the initial police response, they said the three people in hospital – an 46-year-old woman, and two young men aged 17 and 21 – were found with critical injuries.<\/p>\n
“Another young person who was at the address is physically unharmed and they are being given wrap-around support,” they said.<\/p>\n
A firearm was also found at the scene.<\/p>\n
Police earlier revealed a dismantled gun, parts and ammunition were seized from the property a few hours before police returned to find the dead man and critically injured people.<\/p>\n
They also confirmed they responded to a family harm-related incident at the same property on Friday 9 January, where Timmins was arrested and charged with assault on a person in a family relationship.<\/p>\n
Timmins was due in court on the day of the fatal shooting.<\/p>\n
On Facebook, Timmins’ sister said he was her rock, her friend, her protector “and above all, my brother” and “I will miss him,” she said.<\/p>\n
She said it was with the “heaviest of broken hearts” that she was sharing that he was dead.<\/p>\n
“The last of the good old boys,” she wrote. “Loved friend, father, and brother. Trickster, funny fella, all round solid gold.”<\/p>\n
The police investigation continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man found dead after a shooting near Levin was actually stabbed, police say. By Sam Sherwood and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,42,43,40,38,41,39,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-264937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-crime-and-justice","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories","15":"tag-wellington"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264937","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=264937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}