Wellington Police have launched a homicide investigation after after a man found critically injured on a Porirua road on Sunday died last night and inquiries established he fell from a vehicle.
Police this afternoon named the man as 19-year-old Sosiua Helotu Ula of Wiri, South Auckland.
Police and other emergency services attended a scene on Warspite Avenue just after 4pm on Sunday, when he was located on the road with critical injuries.
Detective Senior Sergeant Christiaan Barnard says a team of detectives are working to establish how he sustained these injuries, but inquiries have established that he has fallen from a vehicle. He died of his injuries in Wellington Hospital last night.
Police are still seeking the public’s help identifying anyone who may have witnessed the incident in Porirua on Sunday, Mr Barnard said.
They're also are seeking to reconstruct Mr Ula’s movements before he sustained his fatal injuries, and are appealing to the public for help.
They want to hear of any sightings of a black Mercedes, registration GPW495.
Officers want to urgently speak to anyone who saw the Mercedes or any other car driving erratically near Waitangirua Mall that day, Mr Barnard said.
Police are appealing for the driver of a red car driving east on Warspite Avenue that nearly had a head on crash with the Mercedes to come forward, he said.
One person was taken into custody in relation to the incident and has been charged with driving while disqualified and supplying methamphetamine.
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