{"id":411674,"date":"2026-05-04T18:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/411674\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T18:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:48:10","slug":"murderers-son-jakeem-bowman-fenton-repeatedly-rams-patrol-car-then-threatens-to-shoot-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/411674\/","title":{"rendered":"Murderer\u2019s son, Jakeem Bowman-Fenton, repeatedly rams patrol car, then threatens to shoot officers"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is unknown if she\u2019s had any contact with her son, who has also found himself before the courts on several occasions. <\/p>\n

In 2022, Bowman-Fenton was jailed<\/a> for pointing what officers thought was a pistol at them in the middle of a dark Hamilton street after arresting his girlfriend.<\/p>\n

Frozen with fear, the officers complied with Bowman-Fenton\u2019s repeated demands at gunpoint to \u201clet her go\u201d, before the couple fled.<\/p>\n

Now, the 30-year-old has admitted a fresh set of disturbing offences against officers, this time repeatedly ramming a patrol car which had two officers inside.<\/p>\n

\"DaniellaDaniella Bowman. Photo \/ NZ Police<\/p>\n

\u2018Rammed, pursued, threatened\u2019<\/p>\n

It was Friday, October 31, last year, when Bowman-Fenton was driving a stolen car on Ohaupo Rd.<\/p>\n

He spotted a patrol car, so he did a U-turn and pulled in behind it before ramming it twice.<\/p>\n

The police car tried to speed away, but Bowman-Fenton pursued it, hitting the patrol car two more times.<\/p>\n

Bowman-Fenton sped off towards Hamilton before dumping the vehicle in the suburb of Bader and fleeing on foot.<\/p>\n

As he was arrested, he claimed to have a gun and pointed the object at police. <\/p>\n

As it was dark, it was unclear what the item was – and it later turned out to be a bamboo stick.<\/p>\n

Bowman-Fenton appeared in the Hamilton District Court via audiovisual link from prison on Thursday. <\/p>\n

He pleaded guilty to charges of threatening to kill, resisting police, unlawfully presenting a bamboo stick where the victims believed it was a firearm, failing to stop, unlawfully taking a car, driving while disqualified, and two charges of assault using a vehicle as a weapon.<\/p>\n

He was convicted by Judge David Cameron and remanded in custody for sentencing in August.<\/p>\n

\"MurderMurder victim Raymond Mullins. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n

\u2018Three killers all now on parole\u2019<\/p>\n

His mother was 17 when Mullins was killed.<\/p>\n

Natalie Fenton, who was 15, stabbed Mullins in the chest repeatedly with his own Ginzu steak knife until the blade bent and she had to fetch another.<\/p>\n

Katrina Fenton, who was 19, held him down and repeatedly bashed him in the head with a hammer.<\/p>\n

Bowman found the weapons and attacked him with a pot<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Natalie Fenton said they attacked Mullins<\/a>, whom they knew, in his home after he had advanced on the younger Fenton for sex.<\/p>\n

Bowman said the trio had discussed killing Mullins earlier and that the motive was money.<\/p>\n

Before the murder, Bowman only had a shoplifting charge to her name.<\/p>\n

She was initially released on parole in 2014, but breached her release conditions after about six months by using drugs and alcohol, and was recalled to prison.<\/p>\n

It would be a further five years, after multiple failed attempts, before she would be released, seeing her serve about 20 years for her part in Mullins\u2019 murder.<\/p>\n

The Parole Board described that five years before her release as a \u201crollercoaster ride\u201d, with her being \u201cvery close\u201d to release on several occasions.<\/p>\n

Her dishonesty about inappropriate relationships with women inmates kept her behind bars.<\/p>\n

Natalie Fenton was released on parole in 2016 but reappeared on a breach of her release conditions in April this year, after returning home late.<\/p>\n

She was jailed for six weeks.<\/p>\n

Katrina Fenton has remained on parole since her release more than a decade ago.<\/p>\n

Belinda Feek is an Open Justice reporter based in Waikato. She has worked at NZME for 11 years and has been a journalist for 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is unknown if she\u2019s had any contact with her son, who has also found himself before the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5811,14466,211732,3944,16718,211731,14910,9933,6178,4275,211730,111,43,139,69,23421,71522,43042,30619,1314,41637,22639,107,12419,18931,61,13835,28355,1316,63258],"class_list":["post-411674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-admitted","tag-arrest","tag-bowmanfenton","tag-car","tag-him","tag-jakeem","tag-kill","tag-later","tag-mother","tag-murder","tag-murderers","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-officers","tag-patrol","tag-rams","tag-repeatedly","tag-road","tag-shoot","tag-son","tag-then","tag-threatening","tag-threatens","tag-to","tag-toddler","tag-trying","tag-when","tag-witnessed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411674","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=411674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}