{"id":11239,"date":"2024-09-02T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T20:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=11239"},"modified":"2024-09-02T08:00:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T20:00:58","slug":"boy-8-dies-following-violent-altercation-man-charged-with-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=11239","title":{"rendered":"Boy, 8, dies following violent altercation, man charged with murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 37-year-old man has been charged with the murder of an eight-year-old boy in Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to an address in the suburb of Bader about 5.20pm on Sunday afternoon, after reports of a violent altercation.<\/p>\n<p>Three people were taken to hospital &#8211; the boy, and two adults who were moderately and seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p>The child died last night in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton City field crime manager Inspector Darrell Harpur said the man was taken into custody at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Police have now launched a homicide investigation, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The man accused is due to appear in court today and police were making further enquiries.<\/p>\n<p>RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 37-year-old man has been charged with the murder of an eight-year-old boy in Hamilton. Police were called to an address in the suburb of Bader about 5.20pm on Sunday afternoon, after reports of a violent altercation. Three people were taken to hospital &#8211; the boy, and two adults who were moderately and seriously injured. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11241,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11239\/revisions\/11241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}