A 26 year-old man has made his first court appearance after being charged with the murder of a man who was dropped off at Tauranga Hospital.
The man appeared in Tauranga District Court on Friday where he entered no plea and was granted name suppression. He has been charged with killing the victim with a firearm.
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He was remanded in custody to appear in the High Court at Rotorua on February 7.
Lance Wayne Waite, 58, was dropped at the city's hospital at about midday on Wednesday with critical injuries and died a short time later.
On Thursday, police and the armed offenders squad made the arrest at a home on Ngatai Road in the Tauranga suburb of Otumoetai.
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