{"id":18463,"date":"2026-09-09T12:12:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T00:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=18463"},"modified":"2026-09-09T12:12:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T00:12:17","slug":"children-killed-in-rotorua-home-were-11-months-and-3-years-old-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=18463","title":{"rendered":"Children killed in Rotorua home were 11 months and 3 years old, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The children involved in an alleged\u00a0triple homicide in Rotorua<\/a>\u00a0were just 3 and 11 months old.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Bay of Plenty acting district commander inspector Logan Marsh said the investigation into the deaths of three people at a home in Glenholme continues today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“We can now release the age of the two deceased young children. They were an 11-month-old and a three-year-old.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“Police are continuing to support the family following this traumatic incident.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Emergency services arrived at the home on High Street in Glenholme shortly before 10.30pm on Monday, where they found the bodies of two young children along with a critically injured woman who died at the scene.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Police\u00a0began a homicide investigation<\/a>\u00a0and a man aged in his early 20s appeared in the Rotorua District Court on Tuesday, charged with assaulting a person in a family relationship.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The man and the victims were granted interim name suppression and he was remanded in custody until next month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Marsh said police and other specialist teams remain at the scene on High Street – with a forensic examination ongoing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“Our team are working tirelessly and meticulously through a complex scene, so we can provide answers for those impacted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“An investigation of this nature will take some time and we thank the community for their patience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“Staff will continue to conduct additional reassurance patrols in the Glenholme area and wider community over the coming days.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Police officers making inquiries into a serious incident in High St, Rotorua, 8 September 2026.<\/p>\n

NZME<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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On Wednesday morning, Rotorua mayor Tania Tapsell said the community was\u00a0devastated by the news<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“We’re really devastated about the triple homicide that’s occurred here in Rotorua and especially in the Glenholme neighbourhood. Look, this is a very \u2026 nice families that live there for multiple generations, quite a lot of elderly people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“This is a wonderful neighbourhood that we are just shaken to our core that this has happened in Rotorua and there continues to be a police presence as they complete their investigations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“Unfortunately, we do know that there are two very young children involved in this incident, so our thoughts are with the victims and all those impacted.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Rotorua police at the scene of the triple homicide on High Street in Glenholme.<\/p>\n

RNZ \/ Rachel Moore<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Tapsell said her message to the community was to stay strong, look after one another and report things to police if they had concerns.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“We need to support each other, not only through this incident but also as we continue to deal with increased uncertainty.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A 79-year-old man who had lived on the street his whole life said he was in shock since learning what had happened.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The people living in the house seemed to have recently moved in, he said, and he had seen new children around the street.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A hearse arrived and family members were seen hugging and crying outside the High Street house on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n

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

The children involved in an alleged\u00a0triple homicide in Rotorua\u00a0were just 3 and 11 months old. Bay of Plenty acting district commander inspector Logan Marsh said the investigation into the deaths of three people at a home in Glenholme continues today. “We can now release the age of the two deceased young children. They were an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":18464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18463","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\/18463","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=18463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18465,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18463\/revisions\/18465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}