{"id":641519,"date":"2026-10-26T05:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T05:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/641519\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T05:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T05:32:09","slug":"myers-park-assault-man-20-charged-with-attempted-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/641519\/","title":{"rendered":"Myers Park assault: Man, 20, charged with attempted murder"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe child\u2019s family have been advised and are being supported.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cordons established around the playground yesterday have since been removed.<\/p>\n

\u201cA scene examination at Myers Park has been completed, and the investigation into what happened is ongoing,\u201d Patel said.<\/p>\n

\u201cPolice are not seeking anyone else in relation to the incident, nor do we believe there is any ongoing risk to the public.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hato Hone St John sent two ambulances, a rapid response unit and an operations manager.<\/p>\n

It initially said two patients were taken to hospital, one in a critical condition and the other in a serious condition.<\/p>\n

\"AA police cordon at Myers Park in central Auckland following a serious assault on Sunday. Photo \/ Zebedee Tupa’i<\/p>\n

Auckland Central MP Chl\u00f6e Swarbrick earlier said she had been in contact with local police about the attack.<\/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 yesterday.<\/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

Anyone who saw what happened or has footage can contact police by calling 105 or going online to 105.police.govt.nz<\/a> and click \u201cUpdate Report\u201d, referencing file number 261025\/2283.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe child\u2019s family have been advised and are being supported.\u201d Cordons established around the playground yesterday have since…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2327,152991,74,17704,5765,51,1558,1853,13239,2511,10933,5158,4275,93280,111,43,139,69,8143,23419,102,11587],"class_list":["post-641519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-2327","tag-20yearold","tag-after","tag-assault","tag-attempted","tag-auckland","tag-been","tag-central","tag-charged","tag-child","tag-injured","tag-man","tag-murder","tag-myers","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-park","tag-seriously","tag-with","tag-yesterday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641519","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=641519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}