{"id":444667,"date":"2026-05-25T17:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T17:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/444667\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T17:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T17:28:13","slug":"police-seek-witnesses-after-man-stabbed-at-party-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/444667\/","title":{"rendered":"Police seek witnesses after man stabbed at party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4LXYB41_image_crop_136778\" width=\"1050\" height=\"699\" alt=\"No caption\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Nate McKinnon\n<\/p>\n<p>Police are seeking witnesses after a man was stabbed multiple times in the back in Whang\u0101rei on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to an address on Townsend Place, Tikipunga, about 1.15am. They found a man with multiple stab wounds in the back. He was taken to hospital in a stable condition and is recovering from his injuries, Detective Senior Sergeant Shane Pilmer of Northland CIB said.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was attending a party at the address with about 20 other people.<\/p>\n<p>Police would like to hear from anyone with any information or footage in relation to the stabbing.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Senior Sergeant Pilmer said information could be provided through 105 either online or by phone, quoting file number 260524\/4981.<\/p>\n<p>Information could also be provided anonymously through Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/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":"Photo: RNZ \/ Nate McKinnon Police are seeking witnesses after a man was stabbed multiple times in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187939,"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-444667","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\/444667","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=444667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}