reappear in court<\/a> on October 2. Police confirmed on Thursday no further charges had been laid.<\/p>\nThe man and the woman he is accused of assaulting, previously shared their story of meeting, marrying and getting pregnant in their late teen years.<\/p>\n
They described each other as the love of their life, and spoke of wanting to spend the rest of their lives together.<\/p>\n
They talked of their dreams of travelling together with their children and creating a home of their own.<\/p>\n
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A hearse at the scene of a triple homicide investigation in Rotorua on Tuesday evening. Photo \/ Ben Fraser<\/p>\n
Acting Bay of Plenty Police district commander Inspector Logan Marsh said on Friday that a large team of police were investigating the deaths.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know this incident has shocked the community and there are many questions.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe team are carefully working through a large volume of information, and this will take some time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police were supporting the family. <\/p>\n
He told the Rotorua Daily Post on Thursday that reassurance patrols in the wider Glenholme area would continue. <\/p>\n
He did not address a question about the relationships between the children, woman and man.<\/p>\n
Locals have been placing tributes outside the property, including flowers and a doll of Toy Story character, Jessie.<\/p>\n
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Flowers and toys laid outside the Rotorua property where a woman and two children died on Monday. Photo \/ Ben Fraser<\/p>\n
Lynn Doak, who lives in the same street, placed flowers on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
She told the Rotorua Daily Post she heard arguing and \u201cthree pops\u201d on the night of the tragedy.<\/p>\n
She described the deaths as \u201cterrible\u201d.<\/p>\n
Doak, who has lived in the area for 24 years, said it was a quiet night on Monday when she heard a disturbance at the property.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I heard was two people arguing, a man and a woman, and a lady screamed,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was more argy-bargy and then there were three pops. I said to my husband, \u2018Those bloody kids and their crackers again\u2019, because they come up the street and throw crackers up your drive.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt would have been just after 9pm.\u201d<\/p>\n
Doak said she thought nothing more of the sounds and did not hear anything further that night.<\/p>\n
The neighbourhood was quiet and nothing like this had happened before, she said.<\/p>\n
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Rotorua resident Lynn Doak. Photo \/ Ben Fraser<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a really good part of town,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Doak had not met the family but believed they hadn\u2019t been at the address long.<\/p>\n
She said she felt a deep sense of sadness.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just said to my husband, I feel like it\u2019s my kids, you know. Hell, it\u2019s terrible.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou never hear of this sort of thing happening.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey didn\u2019t deserve that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bijou Johnson<\/a> is a multimedia journalist based in Bay of Plenty. A passionate writer and reader, she grew up in Tauranga and developed a love for journalism while exploring various disciplines at university. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Classical Studies from Massey University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"His identity, and those of the three homicide victims, are suppressed. He was scheduled to reappear in court…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1443,806,1975,3269,1550,299,3273,8916,12898,9610,111,43,139,69,1118,13792,1327,54894,47066,672,165,12637,27561],"class_list":["post-596698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-about","tag-as","tag-at","tag-build","tag-centre","tag-dream","tag-future","tag-homicide","tag-investigation","tag-married","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-pair","tag-rotorua","tag-spoken","tag-teenagers","tag-teens","tag-their","tag-together","tag-triple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596698","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=596698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}