‘Mum is dead’, kids scream
The children of a woman who died at a Hamilton property ran out of the houhomicde
se screaming: ‘‘Mum is dead!’’
Police were called to a report of an assault at a Kentucky Cres address about 11.15pm on Wednesday, a police spokeswoman said.
There they found a seriously injured 30-year-old woman. She died at the scene a short time later.
Yesterday morning police charged a 34-year-old man with murder and wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. He was due to appear in the Hamilton District Court.
A man who lives on the street, who did not wish to be named, said the couple who lived there kept to themselves.
He said he heard a scream the night of the death and then the kids came running out screaming: ‘‘Mum is dead!’’
‘‘My neighbour heard too, and she called the police.’’
He said he had known the people who lived in the house for years, since they had moved in, and they had been very quiet.
‘‘They weren’t rowdy or anything like that.’’
The couple who lived there had just recently painted the fence.
‘‘His parents were there all the time, just about every week.’’
He said the death had shocked the street.
‘‘We are all pretty tight . . . I say hi to everyone. They were really nice. It’s the last thing you thought would happen.’’
One of the two children went to school in the area, and he said he was a ‘‘nice kid’’.
‘‘Always happy and playing around, playing with the other kids in the street.’’
One other person was taken to hospital after the incident with non-life-threatening injuries. A scene guard is in place at the address and at a second address while investigators continue scene examinations.