{"id":17236,"date":"2026-04-22T18:08:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T06:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=17236"},"modified":"2026-04-22T18:08:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T06:08:21","slug":"family-of-woman-and-children-killed-in-hastings-homicide-say-they-are-devastated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=17236","title":{"rendered":"Family of woman and children killed in Hastings homicide say they are ‘devastated’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The family of a woman, baby and toddler\u00a0killed in Hastings<\/a>\u00a0say they are “heartbroken and devastated”.<\/p>\n

It comes as a 36-year-old man was charged with murdering them.<\/p>\n

A homicide investigation, dubbed Operation Train, was launched after emergency services were called to a property on Avenue Rd East, Hastings about 6am Sunday, after reports of several people being seriously injured.<\/p>\n

Three people died – a woman and her two children, a 3-month-old girl and a 17-month-old girl.<\/p>\n

A fourth person, a man, was taken to hospital in a serious condition.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Detective Inspector Martin James said the man had been charged with murder and was scheduled to have a bedside hearing.<\/p>\n

The family said in a statement they were “heartbroken and devastated by the tragic loss of our loved ones”.<\/p>\n

“We are struggling to come to terms with the senseless violence that has taken three beautiful lives far too soon.<\/p>\n

“They were deeply loved and will be missed beyond words.”<\/p>\n

The family asked for privacy “as we grieve together and support one another”.<\/p>\n

“We would also like to thank the emergency services, investigators, and the wider community for their care, compassion, and support during this unimaginable time.”<\/p>\n

On Monday, Coroner Bruce Hesketh\u00a0granted an interim non-publication order in relation to the names<\/a>, or any particulars likely to lead to the identification, of any of the four people.<\/p>\n

Coroner Hesketh’s ruling said the mother and children died of stab wounds.<\/p>\n

Police previously said they wanted to speak to extended family members, including both the man and woman’s former partners.<\/p>\n

Coroner Hesketh made the orders until May 4.<\/p>\n

Source: RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The family of a woman, baby and toddler\u00a0killed in Hastings\u00a0say they are “heartbroken and devastated”. It comes as a 36-year-old man was charged with murdering them. A homicide investigation, dubbed Operation Train, was launched after emergency services were called to a property on Avenue Rd East, Hastings about 6am Sunday, after reports of several people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17236","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=17236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17238,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17236\/revisions\/17238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}