Whangarei police have launched a homicide investigation after a 25-year-old man was found dead inside a house in the middle of the night.
A man was taken into police custody following an alleged stabbing at Balmoral Rd in Tikipunga, just after midnight yesterday. It is the first homicide investigation in Northland this year.
Two St John ambulances were sent to the house to attend to an unconscious man but he was dead by the time they arrived.
The scene was then handed over to police, who started an investigation dubbed Operation Tide.
It is believed the violent incident involved family members and two people believed to be living at the same address were yesterday assisting police. No arrests had been made or charges laid in relation to the death by edition time yesterday.