{"id":619342,"date":"2026-10-03T10:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T10:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/619342\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T10:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T10:52:11","slug":"person-at-hamilton-bus-stop-shot-with-air-gun-police-hunt-orange-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/619342\/","title":{"rendered":"Person at Hamilton bus stop shot with air gun, police hunt orange car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A person waiting at a Hamilton bus stop has been injured after being shot with an air gun, and police are hunting four or five people seen in a small orange car.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to Masters Avenue, near Hillcrest Park, just before 3pm on Saturday after receiving reports that someone had fired an air gun at a member of the public.<\/p>\n<p>St John sent an ambulance and a rapid response unit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our ambulance crew treated and transported one patient in a moderate condition to Waikato Hospital.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Police said they believed four to five people had been inside the car, and that one of the occupants had long hair.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson said officers were working to find those responsible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The community can be reassured police are making active enquiries to locate the offenders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Police have asked anyone who saw the incident, or who has dashcam or CCTV footage from the area between 2.30pm and 3pm, to check it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If anything matches the description above, please contact police immediately on 111,&#8221; the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person waiting at a Hamilton bus stop has been injured after being shot with an air gun,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,9001,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-619342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-hamilton-waikato","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\/619342","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=619342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}