{"id":541692,"date":"2026-07-24T09:07:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T09:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/541692\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T09:07:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T09:07:13","slug":"waterloo-homicide-police-seek-sightings-of-two-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/541692\/","title":{"rendered":"Waterloo homicide: Police seek sightings of two vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police investigating the homicide of a man outside a Lower Hutt property in April are seeking sightings of two vehicles.<\/p>\n

An investigation was launched after Nathaniel Sturmey was found dead on the ground<\/a> outside an address on Malone Rd at around 8am on April 9.<\/p>\n

Detective Inspector Jamie Woods today said police investigating the 29-year-old’s death had carried out several search warrants across the Wellington region.<\/p>\n

“The team is making great progress and there are a number of persons of interest we are focused on, including some known to Nathaniel,” Woods said.<\/p>\n

Woods thanked those who had spoken to police and urged anyone with information “who has information and has not yet talked with us please get in touch”.<\/p>\n

As part of their inquiries, police are now seeking sightings of a black 2010 Nissan Qashqai in and around the Waterloo area of Lower Hutt on the night of Wednesday, April 8, the early hours of Thursday, April 9 and in the Naenae area on Sunday, April 12.<\/p>\n

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A 2010 black Nissan Qashqai. (Source: New Zealand Police)<\/p>\n

Officers were also seeking sightings of a grey 2007 Audi A4 in and around the Waterloo area on the night of Wednesday, April 8, and the early hours of Thursday, April 9.<\/p>\n

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A grey 2007 Audi A4. (Source: New Zealand Police)<\/p>\n

Anyone with information was asked to contact police on 105 or anonymously through Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police investigating the homicide of a man outside a Lower Hutt property in April are seeking sightings of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[67,111,43,139,69,52],"class_list":["post-541692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541692","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=541692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}