{"id":18167,"date":"2026-08-07T13:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T01:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=18167"},"modified":"2026-08-07T13:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T01:19:10","slug":"high-school-student-remains-in-critical-condition-following-violent-attacks-in-aucklands-epsom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=18167","title":{"rendered":"High school student remains in critical condition following violent attacks in Auckland’s Epsom"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An Auckland Grammar School student remains in a critical condition in hospital after being\u00a0injured in a violent rampage in Epsom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A man is facing 17 charges, after allegedly assaulting a jogger, driving a stolen car into a group of high school students on bikes, and killing a dog on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The high school boy was training with four other students as part of a cycling club, when he was allegedly hit by the vehicle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Two other boys were also injured, one with serious injuries and another with moderate injuries. Police said both have since been discharged from hospital.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The 49-year-old accused has been in Auckland City Hospital due to medical concerns but is under close police supervision.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Auckland City District Commander Superintendent Sunny Patel speaking to media about the incident on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

RNZ \/ Marika Khabazi<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He was\u00a0due to appear in Auckland District Court<\/a>\u00a0on Thursday, but instead, his counsel, Jane-Frances O’Halloran, asked for more time to be able to talk to her client.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Judge Grant Fraser\u00a0suppressed the man’s name on an interim basis<\/a>\u00a0and allowed him to appear in court via an audio-visual link on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He would be remanded in custody after his medical concerns were dealt with.<\/p>\n

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

An Auckland Grammar School student remains in a critical condition in hospital after being\u00a0injured in a violent rampage in Epsom. A man is facing 17 charges, after allegedly assaulting a jogger, driving a stolen car into a group of high school students on bikes, and killing a dog on Wednesday. The high school boy was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":18168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18167","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\/18167","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=18167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18169,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18167\/revisions\/18169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}