{"id":8000,"date":"2023-09-22T17:37:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T05:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=8000"},"modified":"2023-09-22T17:37:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T05:37:47","slug":"homicide-investigation-under-way-in-upper-hutt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=8000","title":{"rendered":"Homicide investigation under way in Upper Hutt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are at the scene of a reported homicide in Upper Hutt.<\/p>\n<p>Police responded to an address on Akatarawa Road around 2:20pm where an person who was found injured soon died of their injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Police said earlier they have classed the incident as a homicide and a spokesperson said more details will be available short.<\/p>\n<p>One person located at the address is assisting police with enquiries as they work to determine the circumstances of the death.<\/p>\n<p>A scene guard is being put in place and the public can expect to see an increased police presence in the area while enquiries continue.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-full photo-cntr eight_col \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.rnztools.nz\/rnz\/image\/upload\/s--N7YiOnb---\/ar_16:10,c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,q_auto,w_1050\/v1695357092\/4L29VFI_MicrosoftTeams_image_25_png\" alt=\"Armed police at the scene of a reported Homicide in Akatawara rd, Upper Hutt.\" width=\"1050\" height=\"591\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\"><span class=\"caption\">Armed police at the scene of a reported Homicide in Akatawara rd, Upper Hutt.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photo:\u00a0RNZ \/ Bill Hickman<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>VIA RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are at the scene of a reported homicide in Upper Hutt. Police responded to an address on Akatarawa Road around 2:20pm where an person who was found injured soon died of their injuries. Police said earlier they have classed the incident as a homicide and a spokesperson said more details will be available short. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8000","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\/8000","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=8000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8002,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8000\/revisions\/8002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}