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Abdulhassan Nabizadah was found critically injured in Miramar after a nearby home invasion.
Police are investigating links between the incidents and seeking a white male of athletic build.
His family is pleading for information, describing Nabizadah as a kind and devoted father.
The son of a 62-year-old man who died in mysterious circumstances in the Wellington suburb of Miramar a week ago says his father was a kind man who did not deserve what happened.
Abdulhassan Nabizadah was found critically injured on a street corner minutesafter police were called to a home invasion blocks away.
Police are yet to confirm if the two incidents are linked.
Now his family is desperate for answers, asking anyone who knows what happened to come forward.
“He was a great person, he was a kind person, a great dad”
Nabizadah’s eldest son John Nabizadah sat on the floor of his parents’ sparsely furnished state house next to a framed portrait of his father.
“He was a great person, he was a kind person, a great dad.
A week ago, Abdulhassan Nabizadah was found critically injured on the corner of a Miramar street minutes after police were called to a home invasion just blocks away. Photo / RNZ / Samuel Rillstone
“I didn’t have to worry about anything, the family part of [things], he had the whole thing under control.
“But now, I don’t know, it’s just me getting lost here.”
Abdulhassan Nabizadah was working the late shift at Taylor Preston’s meat processing plant on March 16, and would have finished about midnight.
John Nabizadah said his mother woke at about 5am morning to prepare food ahead of the day’s fasting during Ramadan, but Abdulhassan Nabizadah was nowhere to be found.
The family’s search grew steadily more urgent and they called friends and looked for his car in the streets near his work.
They had told police he was missing, and then got a call from officers that he had been admitted to Wellington Hospital.
“He was a kind person, he might have given someone a lift.”
A week ago, Abdulhassan Nabizadah was found critically injured on the corner of a Miramar street minutes after police were called to a home invasion just blocks away. Photo / RNZ / Samuel Rillstone
In new information released on Monday, police said inquiries now revealed Abdulhassan Nabizadah arrived at the street just before 12.30am, almost two hours before he was found critically injured.
Officers are looking for a white male of athletic build in relation to the home invasion in the area and are yet to determine whether there is a connection between the incidents.
Police have previously said the man was wearing gumboots.
They also want to speak with two people who may have been in the area at that time.
One was a man in fitness clothing and a blue top seen running on Darlington Rd at about 1.30am on the Monday, the other, a man seen walking down Camperdown Rd from Totara Rd about an hour earlier.
“He didn’t deserve this”
On Monday morning, the Nabizadah family gathered, preparing chives from their parents’ garden to make dumplings.
John Nabizadah said he and his family were lost without Abdulhassan Nabizadah’s good-natured guidance.
“He was a dad, he was a kind person, he was a family man, and he didn’t deserve this.
“Please, please, whoever knows anything help us find that person, whoever [did] it to him.”
