{"id":356186,"date":"2026-03-31T03:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/356186\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:06:10","slug":"good-samaritans-save-teen-from-auckland-bus-stop-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/356186\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Good Samaritans&#8217; save teen from Auckland bus stop assault"},"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]\">A family of &#8220;good Samaritans&#8221; stepped in to help a teenager who was being assaulted at a bus stop in Auckland over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">At around 10.10pm on Saturday, two teenage girls were sitting at a bus stop on Don Buck Rd, opposite Mamuku Dr in Massey when a white Suzuki Swift pulled up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;Three people have exited the vehicle before one of them assaulted one of the teenagers,&#8221; police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Detective Senior Sergeant Ryan Bunting said an &#8220;unknown&#8221; family then pulled their vehicle over, getting out and &#8220;told them to leave&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Police now want to speak to the family who intervened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">\u201cWe would really like to identify these people and speak with them about the circumstances of what happened, and also to thank them for their efforts,&#8221; Bunting said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;If this was you, or you know who this family is, police would like to hear from you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Anyone who witnessed the incident or had information about it was asked to call police on 105.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A family of &#8220;good Samaritans&#8221; stepped in to help a teenager who was being assaulted at a bus&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,67,111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-356186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-auckland","9":"tag-crime-and-justice","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356186","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=356186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}