{"id":7913,"date":"2023-09-20T05:17:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T17:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=7913"},"modified":"2023-09-20T05:17:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T17:17:24","slug":"police-name-victim-of-fatal-auckland-bus-stop-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=7913","title":{"rendered":"Police name victim of fatal Auckland bus stop attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

Epapara Poutapu has been named as the man who died after an altercation at a bus stop in Auckland.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old died after he was critically injured at the bus station in Albany at 12:50pm Monday. Poutapu was transported to hospital but later died.<\/p>\n

A 16-year-old appeared in court on Tuesday charged with his murder. He was next due to appear in court in October.<\/p>\n

Detective Inspector Callum McNeill said the investigation into Poutapu’s death is ongoing, however, officers are not seeking anyone else.<\/p>\n

“Police and victim support are working with the wh\u0101nau as they come to terms with this loss,” Det Insp McNeill said.<\/p>\n

“Our thoughts are with his loved ones during this difficult time.”<\/p>\n

Anyone who has information regarding this incident, who has not yet spoken to police, are urged to contact police via our 105 phone service or online at\u00a0https:\/\/www.police.govt.nz\/use-105<\/a>, using Update My Report. Please reference file number 230918\/6677.<\/p>\n

Information can also be provided anonymously via Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n

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Epapara Poutapu has been named as the man who died after an altercation at a bus stop in Auckland. The 24-year-old died after he was critically injured at the bus station in Albany at 12:50pm Monday. Poutapu was transported to hospital but later died. A 16-year-old appeared in court on Tuesday charged with his murder. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7913","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\/7913","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=7913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7915,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7913\/revisions\/7915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}