25 Mar 2024

Gisborne brawl victim was celebrating birthday

From Checkpoint, 5:07 pm on 25 March 2024

One of the people killed in a mass brawl in Gisborne on the weekend, was celebrating his 21st birthday.

Family and friends are paying tribute to Chrysler Stevens Mark, on social media.

Police say the man arrested in connection with the mass brawl was an uninvited guest with gang connections.

Officers plan to speak to every person at the party, as they investigate the death of two people at a 21st.

The violence has left the community reeling, but some neighbours say the whanau who hosted the birthday party where fighting took place are good people.

Ashleigh McCaull reports.