A man is being sought by police after a teenager was punched “without warning” at a bus stop in West Auckland earlier this month. <\/p>\n
The alleged assault took place at around 2.09pm on September 9 at a bus stop on Swanson Road, near the intersection with Mihini Road in Henderson.<\/p>\n
Senior Constable Paul Stanko said the 16-year-old victim was waiting for the bus while three men were in the shelter “drinking beer”. <\/p>\n
\u201cNo words had been exchanged, and there had been no interaction between either group when, without warning, one male approached the victim and punched him.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe punch was so forceful it caused him to stumble into the roadway, causing bruising and facial injuries.\u201d <\/p>\n
The three men left the shelter and walked along Mihini Road as others helped the boy up and off the road. <\/p>\n
Police shared a screenshot from footage it obtained during investigations and wanted to speak to a man filmed wearing a white shirt. <\/p>\n
“I welcome anyone with information to come forward to police now,\u201d Stanko said. \u201cAnyone in the group can also contact police to deal with this matter at any time.\u201d<\/p>\n
He also urged any witnesses to come foward and call police on 105. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou may have witnessed the incident, or have CCTV, dashcam or further video that could assist us, so we thank you for your assistance in resolving this matter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is being sought by police after a teenager was punched “without warning” at a bus stop…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-608905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-auckland","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608905","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=608905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}