{"id":596840,"date":"2026-09-11T06:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T06:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/596840\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T06:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T06:42:11","slug":"police-probe-into-rotorua-triple-homicide-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/596840\/","title":{"rendered":"Police probe into Rotorua triple homicide continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police continue to investigate the deaths<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/09\/09\/children-killed-in-traumatic-rotorua-homicide-aged-3-11-months\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> of two children and a woman in Rotorua earlier this week<\/a>, but say the process could take some time.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services found the children &#8211; one aged three years and the other 11 months &#8211; dead at a property in Glenholme around 10.30pm on Monday. The woman was found with critical injuries and could not be saved.<\/p>\n<p>A homicide probe was launched. <\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday afternoon a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/09\/08\/man-appears-in-court-after-woman-two-children-killed-in-rotorua\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">man appeared in Rotorua District Court<\/a> on a charge of assault on a person in a family relationship.<\/p>\n<p>The man has remained in custody, and police said they were not looking for anyone else relating to the deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Acting Bay of Plenty District Commander, Inspector Logan Marsh said in a statement today that their investigations continue. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The team are carefully working through a large volume of information, and this will take some time,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our thoughts are with the family who we continue to support.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said events had left the community shaken and there are many unanswered questions. <\/p>\n<p>No further charges had been laid at this stage. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police continue to investigate the deaths of two children and a woman in Rotorua earlier this week, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,42,43,1756,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-596840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-tauranga-bay-of-plenty","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596840","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=596840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}