Local resident Kiana Jeffrey told the Courier Mail she was having a barbecue with her family when she saw a house was on fire. She ran up the driveway to see a woman face down in the road.
”I just remember seeing her blood everywhere, on the driveway there was a big puddle and all the police just came flying,” she said.
Tributes have flowed online from heartbroken family and friends calling Auvae a beautiful soul and a wonderful mother.
One woman called her “the most loving, beautiful, kind person I have had the pleasure to know”.
Another said her mother and siblings were struggling to come to terms with their loss and were doing everything to get her home to Aotearoa.
”Can only imagine what your poor babies are going through.”
A Givealittle fundraiser, which has not yet been approved, has been set up by Auvae’s cousin to help with the costs of bringing the young mum back to New Zealand and helping her “beautiful children”.
The fundraising page says Auvae’s 32nd birthday would have been on Christmas Day.
“She was living in Australia with her four beautiful children and partner and her youngest baby is not even a year old.
“Her whanau here in New Zealand are doing everything they can to find out more details surrounding her death and the events leading up.”
Three crime scenes have been set up on Frances Court and police are calling for any information or dashcam footage from the night.
Nobody else is being sought over the deaths.
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At a press conference on Sunday, Detective Inspector David Harbison from Moreton Police said police were continuing to investigate a domestic violence-related homicide, the Courier Mail reported.
Harbison said it was too early to make a comment in regards to the history of domestic violence.
The pair were in a long-term relationship and had recently moved from New South Wales.
”I can state there are no current domestic violence orders in New South Wales or Queensland,” he said.
Queensland Police had received no calls for service to the address prior to the fire, he said.
It appeared the man had deliberately lit the fire after Auvae was stabbed.
Harbison told media the scene was confronting for police and the public. There was no danger to the public.
