{"id":389007,"date":"2026-04-20T16:59:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T16:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/389007\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T16:59:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T16:59:20","slug":"mother-two-young-daughters-killed-in-hastings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/389007\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother, two young daughters killed in Hastings"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Sam Sherwood of RNZ<\/a><\/p>\n

A coroner has granted an order prohibiting publishing the names of a mother and her baby and toddler\u00a0killed following an incident\u00a0at a property in Hastings.<\/p>\n

A homicide investigation was launched after emergency services were called to the Avenue Rd East property, about 6am Sunday, after reports of several people being seriously injured.<\/p>\n

Detective Inspector Martin James earlier said on arrival one person was found dead.<\/p>\n

“Two others were found to be in a critical condition and one in a serious condition, and were transported to Hastings Hospital.”<\/p>\n

The two critically injured people had since died.<\/p>\n

On Monday, James said police could now confirm the three victims were a woman and two young children who lived at the property. The New Zealand Herald reports the two children are both girls.<\/p>\n

The children were aged 3 months and 17 months. Their mother also died in the incident.<\/p>\n

On Monday, a Coroner granted an interim non-publication order preventing publishing the names of the children, their mother and a man is in hospital following the incident.<\/p>\n

The order is in place for two weeks.<\/p>\n

The woman’s family declined to comment to RNZ on Monday.<\/p>\n

A man who lived at the property was also transported to hospital and was undergoing surgery on Monday, James said.<\/p>\n

“Police are not seeking anyone else in relation to the incident; however, no charges have been laid at this time.<\/p>\n

“A team of 30 is working on the homicide investigation, and a scene examination will continue today.”<\/p>\n

James earlier said police appreciated it was a “distressing incident that will no doubt be concerning to nearby residents”.<\/p>\n

“I would like to reassure the community that this was an isolated incident, contained to this specific group of people, and there is no risk to the wider public.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Sam Sherwood of RNZ A coroner has granted an order prohibiting publishing the names of a mother…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-389007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","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\/389007","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=389007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}