The victim of a “targeted attack” at a Wellington apartment complex on Sunday had to jump from a balcony to escape a balaclava-wearing offender who was armed with a shotgun, police say. <\/p>\n
Armed police were called to the Pukehinau Flats<\/a> in Brooklyn at 3.35pm on Sunday afternoon after a person “fell” from an apartment balcony amid reports of gunfire. On Monday, police said the offender, who was armed with a shotgun, was targeting a “specific person”<\/a>. <\/p>\n Detective Senior Sergeant Tim Leitch said today police were still figuring out what exactly happened prior to the shotgun being fired, but shared some new details about what happened. <\/p>\n \u201cWe do know that a person wearing a balaclava and carrying a shotgun approached a flat on level 4 of Block A,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n An “altercation” then broke out, and the gun was fired in the hallways as the victim ran away from the offender. <\/p>\n \u201cFortunately, the victim was not injured by the shot, however he did sustain injuries as he jumped from the southern end second-floor balcony to escape the offender,\u201d Leitch said. <\/p>\n Leitch described it as a “targeted attack”, that exposed the victim and everyone else in the building to an “extreme risk of serious harm”. <\/p>\n He said police continued to investigate what happened, with a scene examination and area canvass now complete. CCTV from the area was also being collected. <\/p>\n Leitch called on anyone with footage of the area around the scene, or dashcam footage from the time to contact police by calling 105.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are several pedestrian accessways into the flats from surrounding streets, and a vehicle access from Brooklyn Hill Road the offender may have used,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cSomeone will have seen the offender before or after the incident and we urge them to contact us.<\/p>\n \u201cOthers will know who was responsible, and we ask they make contact also,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n The morning’s headlines in 90 seconds, including the Police Commissioner\u2019s opinion on publishing leaked audio, two charged over a barbershop attack, and David Beckham and the King swap fashion tips. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The victim of a “targeted attack” at a Wellington apartment complex on Sunday had to jump from a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[67,111,43,139,69,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-117975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-crime-and-justice","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-wellington"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}