{"id":601071,"date":"2026-09-15T12:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T12:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/601071\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T12:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T12:40:10","slug":"mount-victoria-armed-attack-woman-wounded-by-two-men-while-putting-out-rubbish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/601071\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Victoria armed attack: Woman wounded by two men while putting out rubbish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"DsYfyjGuqRwC\" style=\"display:none\">He said the offenders fled after neighbours heard the struggle and came to help the woman. <\/p>\n<p class=\"DsYfyjGuqRwC\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cUnfortunately she sustained wounds to her arm,\u201d Leitch said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"DsYfyjGuqRwC\" style=\"display:none\">The men ran south along Austin St, and a police dog handler tracked them to Porritt Ave, where the trail was lost near the Ellice St intersection. <\/p>\n<p class=\"DsYfyjGuqRwC\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe suspect they had a vehicle parked there and fled in it,\u201d Leitch said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"DsYfyjGuqRwC\" style=\"display:none\">He said both men were described as muscular and wearing dark hoodies. <\/p>\n<p class=\"DsYfyjGuqRwC\" style=\"display:none\">One man was about 1.83cm (6ft) tall, while the other was slightly taller.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DsYfyjGuqRwC\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cOne was wearing a face covering, while the other had dark hair and a dark complexion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"DsYfyjGuqRwC\" style=\"display:none\">Police are seeking witnesses and relevant footage, including sightings of people on foot in the Austin St and Ellice St areas between 11.30pm and midnight, and of vehicles leaving Ellice St after the alleged assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DsYfyjGuqRwC\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIf anyone can help identify these two men, please get in touch right away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"DsYfyjGuqRwC\" style=\"display:none\">Contact police through 105 online or by phone, referencing file number 260910\/8883.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DsYfyjGuqRwC\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He said the offenders fled after neighbours heard the struggle and came to help the woman. \u201cUnfortunately she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,28654,7814,17704,89,3595,15415,3605,13233,111,43,139,69,3111,675,29158,204595,38019,1237,2821,15900,6123,1354,116403],"class_list":["post-601071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-appealing","tag-armed","tag-assault","tag-attack","tag-by","tag-information","tag-men","tag-mount","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-out","tag-police","tag-putting","tag-random","tag-rubbish","tag-two","tag-victoria","tag-wellingtons","tag-while","tag-woman","tag-wounded"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601071","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=601071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}