A homicide investigation has been launched following the death of a man in North Dunedin yesterday.<\/p>\n
Police said they received reports of a sudden death at a property on Great King St about 2pm, and upon arrival found a 36-year-old man dead.<\/p>\n
A scene guard would remain in place today as a forensic examination was carried out, Detective Inspector Shona Low said.<\/p>\n
She said initial indications suggested the man died from non-accidental injuries.<\/p>\n
“There will be an increased police presence in North Dunedin as we work to establish how the man died, and when.”<\/p>\n
She said formal identification procedures would be carried out in the coming days as well as a forensic postmortem.<\/p>\n
Fire and Emergency New Zealand have made available a command unit for use by police.<\/p>\n
There were no Fenz personnel at the scene, a spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n
Det Insp Low urged anyone with information to contact police.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0– 105, file number 251003\/5165, or via Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n
\u00a0– Allied Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A homicide investigation has been launched following the death of a man in North Dunedin yesterday. Police said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-58945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58945","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=58945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}