A homicide investigation is underway following two assaults aboard a bus in east Auckland on Monday evening.
One man has died with a second man receiving serious injuries after they were attacked in two separate incidents aboard the number 76 bus travelling from Glen Innes towards Ōrakei.
A team of investigators are actively searching for the offender, who remains at large this morning.
Detective Inspector Glenn Baldwin, of Auckland City CIB, says Police were notified by ambulance about two separate assaults around 8pm.
At this stage Police have established the offender boarded the bus at Apirana Avenue in Glen Innes at 7.53pm.
Assault 1: Fenchurch and Taniwha Streets
“The first victim boarded the bus at 7.56pm and travelled a short distance before moving to exit the bus at 7.58pm,” Detective Inspector Baldwin says.
“The only other passenger aboard initiated an attack on the victim, before he could exit the bus near Fenchurch Street in Glen Innes.”
During this assault, the victim has suffered a fatal knife wound.
“The victim, is aged in his 50s, and managed to flee from the bus, before it continued on route.
“An ambulance was contacted and subsequently transported the man to hospital where he has later died from those injuries.”
Assault 2: in the vicinity of Coates Avenue and Kepa Road
The 76 bus continued on route and around 8.09pm, the second victim boarded the bus.
“A man aged in his 40s sat at the back of the bus where the offender moved towards him,” Detective Inspector Baldwin says.
“The second unprovoked assault began when the offender approached the victim at the rear of the bus.
“The offender initiated a fight and quickly produced a knife and assaulted the victim.
“After a short confrontation the second victim managed to flee from the bus, along with another passenger and the bus driver near the bus stop at Coates Avenue and Kepa Road.”
The offender eventually exited the bus himself and was last seen fleeing on foot.
Detective Inspector Baldwin says the victim was taken to Auckland City Hospital with serious injuries, where is in a stable condition.
Investigators seeking offender
Police staff have worked through the night to identify the offender responsible for both unprovoked attacks.
This has included 2 scene examinations. The bus has been secured and will be examined today.
“I can advise the community that we are following positive lines of enquiry to identify this man, and our priority this morning is to locate and arrest him.
“Detectives are currently supported by members of the Armed Offenders Squad,” Detective Inspector Baldwin says.
Police have reviewed CCTV footage from inside the bus.
Detective Inspector Baldwin says: “I’m appalled at the unprovoked violence used by this offender against two men who have done absolutely nothing wrong, and one has tragically and needlessly lost his life.
“Our investigation is still in its infancy, but we are committed to understanding the motive and exactly why such violence took place aboard a bus last night.
“I know this horrific event will leave the community unsettled, but please be assured that our investigation team is doing all we can to locate this man.”
Police have spoken with a number of people but ask anyone with additional information to come forward.
Please update Police online now or call 105 using the reference number 251208/7471 or Operation Gyle.
Information can also be provided anonymously via Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111.
Police have reviewed CCTV footage from inside the bus.!!!
Note how any information regarding the assailant’s details / identity / background / skin colour / is not mentioned!
Good ol hidey hidey strikes again.
Perhaps the police were too busy studying bestiality and child pornography on their police computers so they just “skimmed” over it!!
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Why did the bus driver not stop the bus after the first attack and call the police baffles us! Asyulms need to come back silly NZ.
That was my thought. It said the victim and attacker were the only passengers on the bus, so how could the driver miss it?
Next please
The 76 bus I use periodically although never at night. Interesting to know if the offender tagged on . One thing I do notice travelling on buses is how easy it is to travel for free as most drivers will still let you ride if you have no funds or card
A theme is emerging from all these knife attacks on public transport. Public fear as this fits purely in line with the clear and deliberate Cloward Piven Strategy being fulfilled in our society.
Humans were never like this going back centuries and centuries, right at the beginning but once certain groups discovered how to control society out of fear, they double downed on their game.
Stabbings don’t just happen, theres a goal, a motivator, and an instigator; predisposing attributes, precipitating and perpeturlating factors come down to everything in the environment in which they live so my bet of causality is that the entities that govern the societal systems that push people to manual insanity and create the environments in which they are oppressed, are either the direct cause or conduits of a larger group that govern the governing bodies.
It’s a mouthful but people need to see the writing on the wall here. Stabbings aren’t normal and the blame doesn’t always get attributed to all the guilty parties.
People will find out in the coming years what the ultimate goal is and often and highly probably that the term ‘for your safety’ is involved.
As Mark Twain put it “if you cannot understand an action you must look to the consequence to infer the motive’. In this case the consequence is about fear, so much it would make your head spin. The people can’t even get to grips with mind control even though the patents and R&D have been well documented. Im certain based on this, that there are people who literally are not in control of their own faculties.
But hey, it’s just a stabbing so move on, nothing to see here.
While surveillance is being installed for what we’re told by government as being for our ‘safety and security’ people aren’t looking up enough and seeing the literal camera surveillance staining our nation and this my friends is double speak for surveillance in order to force compliance and I have all the evidence to prove this, it’s just that people have become too docile to care, at least until it’s too late and it all hits home when enforcement is AI driven.
It ain’t about a random stabbing, it’s all part of the required surveillance plan whether you’re a criminal or law abiding it won’t matter in the end.
Many people have lost the ability to think at the macro level and micro level all at once. If this makes it to the comment section I’ll be impressed.