One person has been critically injured in a reported shooting in the Palmerston North suburb of Highbury this afternoon.<\/p>\n
In a statement, Detective Sergeant Nigel Affleck confirmed one person was critically injured after an incident in Highbury on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n
“Officers were called to a Pioneer Highway address about 3.15pm, where one person was taken to hospital in critical condition,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Police are continuing to make enquiries as we work to determine exactly what happened.”<\/p>\n
Cordons remained in place around Pioneer Highway, between Cardiff St and Botanical Rd, and members of the public were asked to avoid the area.<\/p>\n
St John said an ambulance, a rapid response unit and one operations manager responded.<\/p>\n
“One patient, in critical condition, has been transported.”<\/p>\n
A witness at the scene told 1News the incident was a shooting.<\/p>\n
“The victim was a male and was shot two times,” he said.<\/p>\n
A woman who lived nearby said she believed the incident occurred in or near the Marriner St carpark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person has been critically injured in a reported shooting in the Palmerston North suburb of Highbury this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,42,31044,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-229501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-manawatu-wanganui","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229501","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=229501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}