In September last year, 13 months after the shooting, a 23-year-old male was arrested and charged<\/a> with being party to Vi\u2019s murder.<\/p>\n![\"Saia]()
Saia Kokohu Vi, known as Tuipulotu Kokohu Vi, was shot dead inside his van on Marvon Downs Ave, August 2024. <\/p>\n
There are details in the case that the media are prevented from publishing because of court suppression orders.<\/p>\n
Police at the time executed a search warrant at an address on Franklyne Road, \u014ctara, where the man was taken into custody.<\/p>\n
At the time of the shooting, nearby residents reported hearing sounds of gunshots.<\/p>\n
A woman who raced to the aid of the courier driver said he loved his grandkids and she had no clue why he was targeted.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was a homebody \u2026 he loved his grandkids.\u201d<\/p>\n
![\"Police]()
Police standing guard on Marvon Downs Ave after the shooting. Photo \/ Jason Oxenham.<\/p>\n
The Marvon Downs Ave resident, who wished to remain anonymous, said she ran out to the crashed van after hearing a volley of shots that sounded like \u201cthey were just outside [her] window\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI ran outside and saw our next-door neighbour\u2019s courier van had driven into our neighbour\u2019s fence.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs soon as I saw that, me and my partner ran over to see if he was still alive and if we could save him, but he was already gone.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Counties Manukau detective inspector Shaun Vickers today said a 35-year-old Waiuku man has now been charged with his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[20391,108766,74,24752,51,1558,13239,11652,634,6097,19552,3806,71,53881,2964,1345,3375,3234,4275,111,43,139,69,1523,85174,4056,8466,7819,102,379],"class_list":{"0":"post-313414","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-20391","9":"tag-35yearold","10":"tag-after","11":"tag-ago","12":"tag-auckland","13":"tag-been","14":"tag-charged","15":"tag-courier","16":"tag-death","17":"tag-down","18":"tag-driver","19":"tag-east","20":"tag-from","21":"tag-gunned","22":"tag-half","23":"tag-home","24":"tag-killed","25":"tag-months","26":"tag-murder","27":"tag-new-zealand","28":"tag-news","29":"tag-newzealand","30":"tag-nz","31":"tag-over","32":"tag-pakuranga","33":"tag-person","34":"tag-second","35":"tag-shooting","36":"tag-with","37":"tag-year"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313414","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=313414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}