{"id":92944,"date":"2025-10-21T21:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T21:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/92944\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T21:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T21:59:07","slug":"police-investigate-death-in-whangarei-cbd-as-bank-st-remains-closed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/92944\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigate death in Whang\u0101rei CBD as Bank St remains closed"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Rose St bus terminal is closed. Photo \/ Denise Piper<\/p>\n
Other businesses closer to the city centre are opening, business as usual. <\/p>\n
While Bernina Northland Sewing Centre co-owner and director Tim Robinson did not know the exact details of the morning\u2019s incident, he was aware a person has died.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously it\u2019s a tragedy, and you never want to see this kind of thing happen in the central city.\u201d<\/p>\n
Robinson praised the police response, especially for the way officers were helping people access Vine St.<\/p>\n
He said the death had followed what had been a reasonable period of calm in the central city. <\/p>\n
Little Foodie, opposite the Rose St bus terminal, was able to open as the cordon stops at the footpath. <\/p>\n
Owner Cameron Thompson noticed sirens and lights about 6am but assumed someone had been pulled over.<\/p>\n
The death was sad, he said.<\/p>\n
Little Foodie on Bank St is just outside the cordon closing access to the Rose St bus terminal, opposite. Photo \/ Brodie Stone<\/p>\n
He described how Rose St was known as a \u201cdodgy\u201d part town but said he had always felt safe.<\/p>\n
An officer earlier told Thompson they were looking to remove the cordon but no timeframe was given.<\/p>\n
Next door at Biggie Bagels, a staff member said the cordon went up about 5.30am.<\/p>\n
The shop would usually be busy about now but was instead quiet.<\/p>\n
Honey\u2019s Coffee Shop staff described the death as \u201cvery sad\u201d but didn\u2019t know any further details.<\/p>\n
They arrived at at the cafe on Vine St about 6.15am and saw a police car near the intersection of Bank, Water and Vine Sts. By 7am they had noticed more police.<\/p>\n
The cafe staff hoped a blessing at the scene would be done in due course.<\/p>\n
More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rose St bus terminal is closed. Photo \/ Denise Piper Other businesses closer to the city centre…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,806,1643,31426,5201,634,6179,23783,78,676,3120,111,43,139,69,5202,4056,675,3109,10715,17182,11420,5424,1869],"class_list":{"0":"post-92944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-as","10":"tag-bank","11":"tag-cbd","12":"tag-closed","13":"tag-death","14":"tag-died","15":"tag-downtown","16":"tag-in","17":"tag-investigate","18":"tag-main","19":"tag-new-zealand","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-newzealand","22":"tag-nz","23":"tag-part","24":"tag-person","25":"tag-police","26":"tag-public","27":"tag-remains","28":"tag-reportedly","29":"tag-st","30":"tag-street","31":"tag-whangrei"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92944","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=92944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}