{"id":386590,"date":"2026-04-19T01:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T01:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/386590\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T01:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T01:11:09","slug":"police-launch-homicide-investigation-after-three-people-killed-in-hastings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/386590\/","title":{"rendered":"Police launch homicide investigation after three people killed in Hastings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4JPXEST_Media_jfif.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"591\" alt=\"A homicide investigation has been launched, after the death of three people in Hastings.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nOne person was found dead upon arrival at the Avenue Road property.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Anusha Bradley\n<\/p>\n<p>A homicide investigation has been launched, after the death of three people in Hastings.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to a house on Avenue Road East on Sunday morning, after a report of several people being seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p>One person was found dead upon arrival.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4JPXEST_Media_1_jfif.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"591\" alt=\"A homicide investigation has been launched, after the death of three people in Hastings.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nPolice were called to a house on Avenue Road East on Sunday morning.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Anusha Bradley\n<\/p>\n<p>Two people were injured &#8211; one in a critical condition and another serious &#8211; with both transported to Hastings Hospital. Both have since died.<\/p>\n<p>A scene examination will soon take place.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Inspector Martin James re-assured the community that this was an isolated incident.<\/p>\n<p>He said the wider public faced no risk.<\/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":"One person was found dead upon arrival at the Avenue Road property. Photo: RNZ \/ Anusha Bradley A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-386590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386590","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=386590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}