{"id":28882,"date":"2025-09-18T02:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T02:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/28882\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T02:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T02:48:07","slug":"man-arrested-charged-with-being-party-to-east-auckland-courier-driver-fatal-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/28882\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested, charged with being party to East Auckland courier driver fatal shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"IGIlsTinqXLQ\" style=\"display:none\">Vi\u2019s courier van was struck by gunfire outside his Pixie Pl home in Pakuranga Heights about 6.45am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"IGIlsTinqXLQ\" style=\"display:none\">Detective Inspector Shaun Vickers said police had spent months piecing together information for the case. He acknowledged the \u201csignificant\u201d time passed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"IGIlsTinqXLQ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI would also like to acknowledge the investigation team who have remained committed to holding those responsible for Mr Vi\u2019s death to account.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"IGIlsTinqXLQ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cOur thoughts remain with Mr Vi\u2019s family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"IGIlsTinqXLQ\" style=\"display:none\">He said police inquiries are continuing and further arrests are possible. <\/p>\n<p class=\"IGIlsTinqXLQ\" style=\"display:none\">&#8211; More to come<\/p>\n<p class=\"IGIlsTinqXLQ\" style=\"display:none\">Raphael Franks is an Auckland-based reporter who covers business, breaking news and local stories from T\u0101maki Makaurau. He joined the Herald as a Te Rito cadet in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"IGIlsTinqXLQ\" style=\"display:none\">Sign up to The Daily H, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vi\u2019s courier van was struck by gunfire outside his Pixie Pl home in Pakuranga Heights about 6.45am. Detective&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28310,1554,14466,11924,51,682,13239,20388,11652,19552,3806,11784,305,1362,5158,4275,111,43,139,69,4762,675,7819,61,28311,102],"class_list":["post-28882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-59yearold","tag-alleged","tag-arrest","tag-arrested","tag-auckland","tag-being","tag-charged","tag-connection","tag-courier","tag-driver","tag-east","tag-fatal","tag-have","tag-made","tag-man","tag-murder","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-party","tag-police","tag-shooting","tag-to","tag-tuipulotu","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28882","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=28882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}