Police have named the victim of a homicide in Gisborne earlier this week and confirmed a firearm was involved in the incident.<\/p>\n
Officers were called to an arrest on Ormond Rd in the suburb of Riverdale shortly after 4am on Monday.<\/p>\n
Bill Pine Maangi, 36, was found critically injured on the front lawn of a property between Lytton Rd and Riperata St.<\/p>\n
He died in Gisborne Hospital a short time later despite efforts to save him.<\/p>\n
Detective Inspector Martin James said police continued to support Maangi’s family and keep them updated on the investigation.<\/p>\n
“Twenty-five staff continue to work on the investigation, following leads and reviewing information from the public.”<\/p>\n
James thanked members of the community who had contributed information and urged anyone who had not yet reached out to do so.<\/p>\n
“Investigators are seeking dashcam footage from anyone that may have been around the Forresters House\/Ormond Rd area between 3am and 4.30am on Monday.”<\/p>\n
He said anyone with details of the incident to contact police, “anonymously if need be”.<\/p>\n
“Mr Maangi didn\u2019t deserve to die this way, and I urge those who know what happened to reach out to us.”<\/p>\n
Anyone with relevant information should contact police on 105.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have named the victim of a homicide in Gisborne earlier this week and confirmed a firearm was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,67,111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-58347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-auckland","9":"tag-crime-and-justice","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58347","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=58347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}