{"id":57959,"date":"2025-10-03T08:50:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T08:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/57959\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T08:50:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T08:50:06","slug":"bill-pine-maangi-named-as-victim-of-alleged-gisborne-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/57959\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Pine Maangi named as victim of alleged Gisborne homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"brdZfQpMhqMp\" style=\"display:none\">Detective Inspector Martin James said police were supporting Maangi\u2019s family and updating them on the investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"brdZfQpMhqMp\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cA forensic examination has been completed, and police have confirmed a firearm was involved in the incident,\u201d James said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"brdZfQpMhqMp\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cTwenty-five staff continue to work on the investigation, following leads and reviewing information from the public.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"brdZfQpMhqMp\" style=\"display:none\">He thanked members of the community who had contributed information and urged anyone who hadn\u2019t yet reached out to do so.<\/p>\n<p class=\"brdZfQpMhqMp\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cInvestigators are seeking dashcam footage from anyone who may have been around the Forrester House Ormond Rd area between 3am and 4.30am on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"brdZfQpMhqMp\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe also continue to urge anyone with details of what happened to contact us, anonymously, if need be.<\/p>\n<p class=\"brdZfQpMhqMp\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cMaangi didn\u2019t deserve to die this way, and I urge those who know what happened to reach out to us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"brdZfQpMhqMp\" style=\"display:none\">Police can be contacted via 105, either over the phone or online, referencing Operation Bushman or file number 250929\/9035. <\/p>\n<p class=\"brdZfQpMhqMp\" style=\"display:none\">Information can also be provided anonymously through Crime Stoppers by calling 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detective Inspector Martin James said police were supporting Maangi\u2019s family and updating them on the investigation. \u201cA forensic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1554,806,16574,12506,305,8916,12898,48315,10136,111,43,139,69,1118,48314,675,8841,8238,1337],"class_list":["post-57959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-alleged","tag-as","tag-bill","tag-gisborne","tag-have","tag-homicide","tag-investigation","tag-maangi","tag-named","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-pine","tag-police","tag-suspected","tag-under","tag-victim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57959","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=57959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}