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Armed police respond to 'serious incident' on Auckland's Quay Street (www.rnz.co.nz)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Quick summary of where things are at:

a shooter brought a pump action shotgun to a building site and started shooting at workers
two people plus the shooter are dead
three people seriously injured, three moderately injured
one responding police officer injured
does not appear to be politically or ideologically motivated
shooter was recently sentenced to home detention on domestic violence charges (thanks @[email protected]).

More from police press conference:

weapon not illegal type, but offender didn't have firearms licence. Unclear how he got weapon, not previously known to have weapon
was on home detention but had exemption to work at the site
indications that motivation was related to the work site
isolated, no wider risk, no reason for others to be worried about safety
no concerns regarding FIFA event safety

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gunman was on home detention for domestic violence: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300931632/auckland-cbd-shooter-was-on-home-detention-for-domestic-violence-charges

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Maybe not the place to start a discussion on domestic violence, but it's correlated with so many outcomes we don't want as a society that getting people professional help at the first sign of trouble seems like an obvious starting point.

Therapy, anger management, drug or alcohol dependance treatment, etc. I'm not sure that we have much support for any of these at the moment.