A homicide investigation has been launched after a man stabbed in the Auckland suburb of Blockhouse Bay on Saturday afternoon died in hospital from his injuries.<\/p>\n
The victim was wounded in a “violent confrontation” on Holbrook St, near the Shoreham St intersection, at about 3.40pm on Saturday, before he got into a vehicle with associates and was driven to a nearby bus stop on Blockhouse Bay Rd.<\/p>\n
Acting Detective Inspector Craig Bolton said an ambulance was called immediately.<\/p>\n
The man was rushed to Auckland City Hospital in a critical condition.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe had undergone emergency surgery, being kept in intensive care,” Bolton said.<\/p>\n
“Sadly, we can advise the man has since succumbed to those injuries and died in hospital during the evening of August 23.”<\/p>\n
Police had since set up Operation Falconer to investigate the man’s death yesterday.<\/p>\n
Scene examinations were carried out at two locations on Saturday, including where the initial altercation took place and where the victim was found by ambulance staff.<\/p>\n
Anyone in the area at the time has been urged to come forward.<\/p>\n
“If you have dashcam footage, CCTV footage or saw anything \u2013 we need to hear from you.”<\/p>\n
Officers were seeking any witnesses to the initial confrontation on Holbrook St or near the bus stop on nearby Blockhouse Bay Rd.<\/p>\n
Police have also sought and been granted interim non-publication orders around the victim’s name from the Coroner’s Office. <\/p>\n
Under section 74 of the Coroners Act, the man’s full name and identifying particulars cannot be reported or published.<\/p>\n
“We are in a sensitive phase of our investigation, and we haven’t taken this step lightly, but the community can be reassured that we are working to identify those present and responsible,” he said.<\/p>\n
Bolton said officers had been liaising with the man’s next of kin.<\/p>\n
“Our thoughts are with them at this difficult time, and we will continue to update them on progress in our enquiries,” he said.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information was urged to call 105.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A homicide investigation has been launched after a man stabbed in the Auckland suburb of Blockhouse Bay on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,67,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-578979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-auckland","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578979","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=578979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}