Two people are dead after a gunman armed with a pump-action shotgun stormed a building in Auckland’s central business district this morning. The gunman has also died. At least six people are injured, including one police officer who was transported to hospital in a critical condition. The police officer is now stable. The incident occurred hours before the opening of the Fifa Women’s World Cup, which is being co-hosted by New Zealand.
The shooter has been identified as 24-year-old Matu Tangi Matua Reid. He was serving a sentence of five months home detention for domestic violence and had approval to travel to the building site as an employee of a subcontractor that had been working on the renovation.
The incident is the worst episode of gun violence in New Zealand since a terrorist attack on two mosques in Christchurch, in 2019
Police received a call about a man with a pump-action shotgun firing at people in a building on Lower Queen St at 7.23am.
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