{"id":333538,"date":"2026-03-17T06:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T06:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/333538\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T06:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T06:41:08","slug":"murder-charges-laid-over-alleged-gang-shooting-in-christchurch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/333538\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder charges laid over alleged gang shooting in Christchurch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">Three men have been charged with murder in relation to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/02\/19\/four-injured-one-critically-in-gang-related-christchurch-shooting\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">suspected gang-related shooting<\/a> in Christchurch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Police were called to a house on Hoani St in Northcote on February 19, where a gun was fired during an altercation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Robert Haimona died in hospital eight days after the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The trio \u2013 aged 19, 31 and 40 \u2013 appeared at the Christchurch District Court via video link, where they blew kisses, pulled gang signs, and shouted expletives to friends and family sitting in the public gallery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Name suppression was sought by the men\u2019s lawyers and the basis of fair trial rights until at least their first appearance at the High Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The Crown did not oppose the suppression applications.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The men have been remanded in custody until April 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three men have been charged with murder in relation to a suspected gang-related shooting in Christchurch. Police were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[158,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-333538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-christchurch-canterbury","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333538","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=333538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}