18 May 2023

Hunt on for gunman in Auckland

From Morning Report, 7:50 am on 18 May 2023

Auckland police are still hunting for a gunman shot at a minivan, injuring a 15-year-old girl who was sitting in the van's backseat.

The girl is in a stable condition in hospital - another family member was also injured but not shot. In what's being called an act of road rage, a 2009 Mazda Axela followed the minivan off the north-western motorway near St Lukes on Tuesday night.

The offender then shot at the vehicle near Asquith Avenue in Mount Albert and carried onto a petrol station on Sandringham Road where police were called. Detective Senior Sergeant Martin Friend is calling it an appalling display of violence.

The general manager of the Sandringham Business Association, Mark Scherer spoke with Corin Dann.