{"id":640699,"date":"2026-10-25T07:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T07:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/640699\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T07:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T07:58:10","slug":"myers-park-assault-man-20-in-custody-after-victim-seriously-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/640699\/","title":{"rendered":"Myers Park assault: Man, 20, in custody after victim seriously injured"},"content":{"rendered":"
RNZ reported it understood one of the patients had been taken to Starship children\u2019s hospital.<\/p>\n
Cordons have been established around the playground in Myers Park. The park runs between Queen St and Greys Ave, from Mayoral Drive towards Karangahape Rd.<\/p>\n
A police cordon at Myers Park in central Auckland following a serious assault on Sunday. Photo \/ Zebedee Tupa’iThe scene at Myers Park in central Auckland after a serious assault on Sunday. Photo \/ Zebedee Tupa’i<\/p>\n
Police said the incident was isolated and there was no ongoing risk to the public.<\/p>\n
Auckland Central MP Chl\u00f6e Swarbrick earlier said she had been in contact with local police about the incident.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been in touch with our local police about the serious assault that has just occurred in Myer\u2019s Park,\u201d she wrote on Facebook.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe alleged perpetrator is in police custody … They have asked me to ensure our community knows that the response was swift and there is no ongoing threat.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police inquiries are continuing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RNZ reported it understood one of the patients had been taken to Starship children\u2019s hospital. Cordons have been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2327,74,3471,17704,51,1853,2511,1239,11728,11928,2241,78,10933,5158,93280,111,43,139,69,8143,1597,384,1238,23419,19554,140847,1337,102],"class_list":["post-640699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-2327","tag-after","tag-among","tag-assault","tag-auckland","tag-central","tag-child","tag-condition","tag-critical","tag-custody","tag-hospital","tag-in","tag-injured","tag-man","tag-myers","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-park","tag-patient","tag-people","tag-serious","tag-seriously","tag-taken","tag-understood","tag-victim","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640699","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=640699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}