A 23-year-old man charged with murdering a man in central Auckland yesterday has appeared in court this afternoon.<\/p>\n
Police say the victim was found critically injured on Wellesley Street East about 6.45pm last night.<\/p>\n
He died shortly after being taken to hospital.<\/p>\n
The accused made his first appearance in the Auckland District Court this afternoon.<\/p>\n
He was granted interim name suppression and remanded in custody to appear in the High Court next month.<\/p>\n
Emergency services were initially alerted to a fight involving several people known to each other.<\/p>\n
Acting Detective Senior Sergeant Scott Wilson, of the Auckland City CIB, said the victim was taken to hospital but died on arrival.<\/p>\n
A scene guard is in place while inquiries continue.<\/p>\n
Wilson said no one else was being sought in connection with the death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 23-year-old man charged with murdering a man in central Auckland yesterday has appeared in court this afternoon.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-482266","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\/482266","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=482266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}