{"id":361746,"date":"2026-04-03T10:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T10:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/361746\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T10:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T10:08:10","slug":"arrest-made-in-relation-to-wainuiomata-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/361746\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest made in relation to Wainuiomata death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4KAEMAJ_RNZD0271_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"RNZ\/Reece Baker\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nAn arrest has been made after a man died in Wainuiomata on Thursday morning.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ REECE BAKER\n<\/p>\n<p>A minor has been arrested in relation to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/591358\/body-found-in-lower-hutt-being-treated-as-unexplained-death\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">death of a man<\/a> in the Lower Hutt suburb of Wainuiomata.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to Wainuiomata Road on Thursday morning, after report of a man found unresponsive.<\/p>\n<p>He was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Inspector Nick Pritchard said the death was initially treated as unexplained, but Police are now investigating the matter as a homicide.<\/p>\n<p>The young person, who was known to the man, has been charged with assault with a weapon.<\/p>\n<p>Police are asking to hear from anyone who witnessed Thursday morning&#8217;s events unfolding, or who might have information to share.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An arrest has been made after a man died in Wainuiomata on Thursday morning. Photo: RNZ \/ REECE&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-361746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361746","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=361746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}