Early the following morning, a person was admitted to hospital with what were reported to be moderate injuries consistent with gunshot wounds after an incident in residential Thackeray St.<\/p>\n
Police had by late-week reported only three arrests – that of a minor in relation to the service station incident, a 21-year-old charged with wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm after the bar-quarter assault, and a 19-year-old in relation to the Thackeray St incident. <\/p>\n
Police Hawke\u2019s Bay Area commander Lincolm Sycamore said: \u201cThe public can be assured that we are making good progress with the events over the past week.<\/p>\n
\u201cPolice are very deliberate in thoroughly investigating crimes on behalf of victims,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have a responsibility to do what\u2019s right for victims and we want justice on their behalf.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said Hawke\u2019s Bay Police are managing the investigations within \u201ccurrent capacity,\u201d adding that serious crime investigations often rely on specialist services like ESR to assist.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey cover the country and respond as and when they are needed,\u201d he said. \u201cOur operations continue to meet the demand and calls for emergency service.\u201d <\/p>\n
Doug Laing is a Hawke\u2019s Bay Today reporter based in Napier with more than 40 years newspaper experience in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Early the following morning, a person was admitted to hospital with what were reported to be moderate injuries…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[60698,12635,1561,1558,803,6147,181,6101,305,1976,42,10116,17709,35199,661,1446,153375,43,675,13194,13181,8229,40,38,41,39,686],"class_list":["post-271000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-although","tag-area","tag-bay","tag-been","tag-continue","tag-crime","tag-details","tag-good","tag-have","tag-hawkes","tag-headlines","tag-incidents","tag-investigating","tag-investigations","tag-major","tag-making","tag-napierhastings","tag-news","tag-police","tag-progress","tag-released","tag-they","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271000","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=271000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}