{"id":82328,"date":"2025-10-16T14:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/82328\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T14:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:33:11","slug":"hastings-police-call-for-witnesses-to-altercation-that-ended-mans-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/82328\/","title":{"rendered":"Hastings police call for witnesses to altercation that ended man\u2019s life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/16817683-59d4-41d8-b49c-ccecb22b43ed.png\" alt=\"Michaela Gower\" class=\"rounded-full object-cover h-[3.4375rem] w-[3.4375rem] min-w-[3.4375rem]\" data-test-ui=\"author--details__image\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/hawkes-bay-today\/author\/michaela-gower\/\" class=\"text-sys-text-dark underline underline-offset-3\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" data-test-ui=\"author--link\" target=\"_blank\">Michaela Gower<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Multimedia Journalist\u00b7Hawkes Bay Today\u00b7<\/p>\n<p>16 Oct, 2025 02:17 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Police are appealing for help from anyone who may have witnessed an altercation on the corner of Williams St and Waipuna St in Mahora, Hastings. Photo \/ Jack Riddell <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police are asking for help from anyone who witnessed an altercation in Hastings that led to a man\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Officers want to speak to anyone passing the corner of Williams St and Waipuna St in Mahora between 8am and 10am last Saturday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Police were called to a property shortly<br \/>\n         after 9.45am after reports of an altercation between a group of men, acting Detective Inspector James Keene said.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cDuring the altercation, one of the males has suffered a head injury after his head hit the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">The man was taken to Wellington Hospital, where he died from his injuries late on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michaela Gower Multimedia Journalist\u00b7Hawkes Bay Today\u00b7 16 Oct, 2025 02:17 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[58454,8212,27518,3043,634,8532,2082,71,5194,5838,424,16122,111,43,139,69,675,1361,61,63258,28251],"class_list":["post-82328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-altercation","tag-anyone","tag-asking","tag-call","tag-death","tag-ended","tag-for","tag-from","tag-hastings","tag-help","tag-life","tag-mans","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-police","tag-that","tag-to","tag-witnessed","tag-witnesses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82328","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=82328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}