{"id":640535,"date":"2026-10-25T03:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T03:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/640535\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T03:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T03:08:12","slug":"person-critically-injured-overnight-in-south-auckland-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/640535\/","title":{"rendered":"Person critically injured overnight in South Auckland assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A person remains in a critical condition in hospital following an assault outside a commercial premises in South Auckland overnight. <\/p>\n<p>Police said the assault occurred on Massey Rd in M\u0101ngere at around 12.10am on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Senior Sergeant Kevin Tiernan said the victim was transported to hospital, where they remained in a critical condition.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The alleged offender fled the scene prior to police arrival, and we are making inquiries to locate them,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/PDS6QLYCQRBQHJRJB3NV3BBAAI.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">(Source: 1News)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A scene guard is in place on Massey Rd while police conduct a scene examination. The public can expect an increased police presence during this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Footage captured by 1News showed police cordons surrounding a commercial complex and a Mobil petrol station.<\/p>\n<p>Police urged anyone who witnessed the assault or had information about the incident to contact them through 105, quoting file number 261025\/0338.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person remains in a critical condition in hospital following an assault outside a commercial premises in South&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,67,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-640535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-auckland","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640535","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=640535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}