By STAFF REPORTERS
Detectives have charged a man with the murder of Mangere liquor store owner Shiu Prasad.
The 41-year-old unemployed labourer from Mangere will appear in the Otahuhu District Court today following his arrest last night.
An intensive manhunt followed the repeated stabbing of 53-year-old Mr Prasad in his store on Tuesday.
The robber took $150 from the till.
Mr Prasad staggered outside with a cordless phone and called police. He died in Middlemore Hospital.
Police inquiries are continuing and detectives want to talk to a potential witness caught on a security camera in the nearby Video Ezy shortly before the attack.
The man had Pacific Island features, was aged in his 20s and was of medium build. He wore a hat with a distinctive white or cream strip around the middle and a light-coloured sweatshirt.
Elsewhere in the country, detectives are still trying to find the killers of a 41-year-old Taumarunui woman, a 25-year-old Paeroa man and a Palmerston North mother and daughter.
More details on the killings of Christine Lundy and her 7-year-old daughter Amber are expected today after an autopsy on Mrs Lundy's body is completed.
Amber's body was examined on Thursday night.
At the murder scene yesterday, police removed Mrs Lundy's body through a front window of the home to "avoid contamination of other areas."
A relative told the Weekend Herald last night that Mark Lundy, a kitchen sink salesman, was regularly away on business - and Amber always phoned before she went to bed.
"She was very close to her father. They were a closeknit and loving family."
In Taumarunui, Inspector Don Allan said the 30 officers investigating the death of Te Miringa Shayle Tipene, known as Millie Dunn, had no suspects and were trying to establish her movements before her death.
Millie Dunn's body was found at her New Rd home on Tuesday with extensive injuries to the upper torso, neck and head.
In Paeroa, police are not expecting any early developments in their inquiries into the death of Brian Paul Olsen.
Eighteen officers from throughout the Waikato police district, assisted by Institute of Environmental Science and Research experts, are involved in the investigation.
Mr Olsen's body was found at his Thames Rd home by his mother and a friend at 10 am on Thursday.
There is evidence he was violently attacked.
Detective Senior Sergeant Mike Whitehead, who heads the inquiry, would not say if police had any suspects but did not expect any developments by early today.
He said police had hoped to remove Mr Olsen's body from the house late yesterday but were in no hurry.
"It's just the process of working through the scene. You can't go rushing in there and destroy potential evidence in the process."
A 44-year-old woman has been charged with Thursday's assault on a 79-year-old Otara woman who is still seriously ill in Middlemore Hospital.
The arrested woman appeared in the Papakura District Court yesterday. She was granted name suppression and remanded for a fortnight.
Man charged with fatal liquor store stabbing
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