{"id":620040,"date":"2026-10-04T05:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T05:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/620040\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T05:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T05:00:10","slug":"teen-charged-after-hamilton-bus-stop-air-gun-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/620040\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen charged after Hamilton bus stop air gun shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">Police have charged a teenager alleged to be involved in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/10\/03\/person-at-hamilton-bus-stop-shot-with-air-gun-police-hunt-orange-car\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">air gun incident in Hamilton<\/a> yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">A person was injured at a bus stop on Masters Avenue near Hillcrest Park and given medical treatment after being shot at.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Senior Sergeant Mark Pettigrew said police went to a Hamilton property early on Sunday, where firearms, ammunition and other weapons were found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;Following extensive enquiries, at approximately 1am today, the Armed Offenders Squad and CIB assisted front line staff at a Hamilton property where firearms, ammunition and other weapons were discovered,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">An 18-year-old Hamilton man is facing charges of wounding with reckless disregard, unlawful possession of ammunition and possession of an offensive weapon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">He is due to appear in Hamilton District Court on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Pettigrew acknowledged the public for their help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;Police want to thank members of the public who helped with enquiries, and police continue to work with community members who may have witnessed the incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have charged a teenager alleged to be involved in an air gun incident in Hamilton yesterday afternoon.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620041,"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-620040","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\/620040","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=620040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}