{"id":534363,"date":"2026-07-20T00:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T00:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/534363\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T00:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T00:29:12","slug":"police-investigating-after-person-shot-in-port-waikato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/534363\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigating after person shot in Port Waikato"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are investigating after a person was shot \u2014 and seriously injured \u2014 in Port Waikato last night. <\/p>\n<p>Counties Manukau CIB Detective Inspector Karen Bright said officers were called to an address on Centreway Rd, Port Waikato after receiving a report of a person injured around 8.30pm. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Upon arrival police located the victim, who had an injury consistent with a gunshot wound,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/officers-were-called-to-an-address-on-centreway-rd-port-waik-ZCOVUGUYIFADVL663KRUJEMICE.jpg\" alt=\"Officers were called to an address on Centreway Rd, Port Waikato after receiving a report of a person injured around 8.30pm. \" width=\"800\" height=\"480\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">Officers were called to an address on Centreway Rd, Port Waikato after receiving a report of a person injured around 8.30pm.  (Source: Google Maps)<\/p>\n<p>Bright said the victim was taken to hospital in a serious but stable condition, where they remain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All parties involved are believed to be known to each other and there it is not believed there is a risk to the public,&#8221; she added. <\/p>\n<p>St John said it sent one rapid response vehicle, one road manager, one transporting ambulance and one helicopter to the scene. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We transported one patient in moderate condition by road to Middlemore Hospital,&#8221; a St John spokesperson said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were clear of the scene by 10pm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bright said inquiries were ongoing to establish the exact circumstances around what occurred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are investigating after a person was shot \u2014 and seriously injured \u2014 in Port Waikato last night.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[67,9001,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-534363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-hamilton-waikato","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534363","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=534363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}