{"id":7894,"date":"2023-09-19T05:18:39","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T17:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=7894"},"modified":"2023-09-19T05:18:39","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T17:18:39","slug":"albany-bus-station-incident-one-dead-homicide-inquiry-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=7894","title":{"rendered":"Albany Bus Station incident: One dead, homicide inquiry launched"},"content":{"rendered":"

A person is dead and a homicide investigation has been launched following an incident in Albany on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Police were earlier urging the public to stay away from Auckland’s Albany Bus Station as they responded to an incident. Auckland Transport (AT) said an altercation broke out between members of the public, resulting in two people being injured.<\/p>\n

Waitemat\u0101 CIB Detective Inspector Callum McNeill said one person was transported to Auckland Hospital in a critical condition.<\/p>\n

“They have since died as a result of their injuries and a homicide investigation was subsequently launched.” The second person received a minor injury, police said earlier.<\/p>\n

\"Police<\/p>\n

Police have launched a homicide investigation following an incident at Auckland’s Albany Bus Station.\u00a0<\/span>Photo:\u00a0RNZ \/ Jordan Dunn<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Officers were called to the scene just before 1pm on Monday. By the time RNZ arrived soon afterwards, there were already dozens – some in hazmat suits. Shoes could be seen strewn across the pavement, people having fled the scene in a hurry.<\/p>\n

A witness described seeing blood splattered across the ground and windows. Brett Napier had just got off the bus from the city when he came across the scene.<\/p>\n

“I saw a whole lot of blood on the opposite side that had been smeared. When I looked on the inside, the counter where the staff would normally be, that was closed and there was a trail of blood from there, across the floor.”<\/p>\n

Diedre Oelofse had planned to bus home from the station and said the incident was “a massive shock”.<\/p>\n

“What the hell is happening? I think when you see the things and all the police vehicles, you expect the worst.”<\/p>\n

Another witness arrived soon after the incident. She told RNZ’s\u00a0Checkpoint\u00a0<\/i>there were “hundreds of cops, just everywhere”. Buses were still arriving, not having yet been diverted.<\/p>\n

“I got off the bus and there was just a man having CPR performed on him. Blood was just eveywhere, It was really, really surreal… There were definitely a lot of young uni students, because all the unis were back today… crying, really upset.”<\/p>\n

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

A person is dead and a homicide investigation has been launched following an incident in Albany on Monday afternoon. Police were earlier urging the public to stay away from Auckland’s Albany Bus Station as they responded to an incident. Auckland Transport (AT) said an altercation broke out between members of the public, resulting in two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7894","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\/7894","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=7894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7896,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7894\/revisions\/7896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}