{"id":300972,"date":"2026-02-25T05:39:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T05:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/300972\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T05:39:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T05:39:12","slug":"christchurch-shooting-police-swarm-quiet-street-after-early-morning-drive-by-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/300972\/","title":{"rendered":"Christchurch shooting: Police swarm quiet street after early morning drive-by shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"XwsInylahQtJnSbA\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThere will be a police presence in the area while officers make a number of enquiries, working to determine what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"XwsInylahQtJnSbA\" style=\"display:none\">A resident, who did not want to be named, said that he heard two loud bangs just before 4.30am this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"XwsInylahQtJnSbA\" style=\"display:none\">He said a car sped into the street before firing shots at the home pictured before speeding off. He said police had been at the property for much of the day. <\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Police are often seen in Keri Pl, residents have said. Photo \/ Jazlyn Whales\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Police are often seen in Keri Pl, residents have said. Photo \/ Jazlyn Whales<\/p>\n<p class=\"XwsInylahQtJnSbA\" style=\"display:none\">Another neighbour said the road became flooded with people early this morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"XwsInylahQtJnSbA\" style=\"display:none\">When asked if the police had a presence in the area today, he said, \u201cWhen have they not?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"XwsInylahQtJnSbA\" style=\"display:none\">Police visited the street often, several residents said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"XwsInylahQtJnSbA\" style=\"display:none\">It comes a week after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/crime\/gang-related-christchurch-shooting-three-men-arrested-including-19yo-all-to-appear-in-court\/TSVLZSFBWVDBNI3GI2K6ZHHPQA\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/crime\/gang-related-christchurch-shooting-three-men-arrested-including-19yo-all-to-appear-in-court\/TSVLZSFBWVDBNI3GI2K6ZHHPQA\/\">a man was shot during a suspected gang-related fight at a Christchurch house<\/a> in Hoani St, Northcote. <\/p>\n<p class=\"XwsInylahQtJnSbA\" style=\"display:none\">Three men have been arrested in relation to that incident, which left four people injured, one of them critically. <\/p>\n<p class=\"XwsInylahQtJnSbA\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe understand that incidents like this can be unsettling for the community, and would like to reassure people that we do not believe there is a risk to the wider public,\u201d said Detective Inspector Nicola Reeves after last Wednesday\u2019s incident. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThere will be a police presence in the area while officers make a number of enquiries, working to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,7814,9218,4487,161904,2245,26663,96995,42,11551,1304,43,6662,23421,675,28142,7819,165232,5424,39537,61603,1961,40,38,41,39,3608],"class_list":{"0":"post-300972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-armed","10":"tag-before","11":"tag-christchurch","12":"tag-driveby","13":"tag-early","14":"tag-fired","15":"tag-gunshots","16":"tag-headlines","17":"tag-hours","18":"tag-morning","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-off","21":"tag-officers","22":"tag-police","23":"tag-quiet","24":"tag-shooting","25":"tag-sped","26":"tag-street","27":"tag-swarm","28":"tag-swarmed","29":"tag-this","30":"tag-top-news","31":"tag-top-stories","32":"tag-topnews","33":"tag-topstories","34":"tag-were"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300972","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=300972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}