{"id":11757,"date":"2024-10-25T05:20:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T16:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=11757"},"modified":"2024-10-25T05:20:14","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T16:20:14","slug":"auckland-bus-stabbing-victim-did-not-die-alone-passenger-assures-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=11757","title":{"rendered":"Auckland bus stabbing victim did not die alone, passenger assures family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A passenger on board the Auckland bus where\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/531815\/driver-did-everything-they-could-to-help-after-fatal-attack-on-bus-at\">a woman was stabbed to death on Wednesday<\/a>\u00a0wants the family of the victim to know she did not die alone.<\/p>\n<p>A 37-year-old man was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/531799\/man-suspected-of-fatal-bus-assault-in-custody-police\">taken into custody on Thursday<\/a>, in relation to the killing on an Onehunga bus about 2.30pm on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The man handed himself in at a North Shore police station, a police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>A woman who was on the number 74 bus when the attack took place has described how passengers tried to help the victim.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just want to let her family know that she didn&#8217;t die alone, that I held her hand in the bus until she got help and we did everything we could.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Police said they believed the attack was random, and the victim and alleged offender did not know each other, though they were sitting near each other.<\/p>\n<p>They did not think there was an altercation before the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Acting detective inspector Alisse Robertson said police would like to thank the wider community in the wake of the arrest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The investigation is still in its infancy and there&#8217;s still a lot of work to be done to piece together the events leading up to this tragic incident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police would like to thank everyone who has provided information, and would still like to speak to anyone who may have witnessed this ordeal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Information can be provided by making an online report at 105.police.govt.nz using &#8220;Update Report&#8221; or by calling 105.<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A passenger on board the Auckland bus where\u00a0a woman was stabbed to death on Wednesday\u00a0wants the family of the victim to know she did not die alone. A 37-year-old man was\u00a0taken into custody on Thursday, in relation to the killing on an Onehunga bus about 2.30pm on Wednesday. The man handed himself in at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11757","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\/11757","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=11757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11759,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11757\/revisions\/11759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}