Acting Detective Senior Sergeant Scott Sherer said police had launched a homicide investigation after yesterday’s incident in Glenfield on Auckland’s North Shore.
Police were called to WyvernPlace about 4.25pm yesterday, where officers found the woman seriously injured.
She was taken to hospital in a critical condition but died and was unable to be revived, Sherer said.
Police are investigating a woman's murder on Wyvern Pl, Glenfield. Photo / Hayden Woodward
Several officers in boiler suits, along with detectives and uniformed officers, remain outside the home at 12pm today.
Police were carrying out a scene examination at the address and Sherer said the public should expect an increased police presence in the area.
He said police would release more information when it became available.
Residents in Wyvern Place, a dead-end street nestled in bush next to Eskdale Reserve, were shocked to hear of the woman’s death.
”It’s really unusual [to have police here] because it’s a really quiet street … so we knew something was wrong”, said a man living across the street from where police had put emergency tape around a two-storey home.
”We don’t have much crime down here because it’s a cul-de-sac. People come down here and they get stuck.”
He hadn’t heard anything yesterday afternoon, and wasn’t sure who the victim was as there was more than one residence in the home.
He knew a woman he believed was aged in her 50s lived in a ground level flat.
”We’d see her walking her dog.”
A man would also often visit the woman, but he’d never seen any trouble, the neighbour said.
