{"id":313554,"date":"2026-03-05T02:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T02:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/313554\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T02:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T02:48:09","slug":"man-charged-with-murder-over-2024-shooting-of-courier-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/313554\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with murder over 2024 shooting of courier driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">A man has been charged with murder after a courier driver was shot dead in his vehicle in east Auckland in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Police were called around 6.45am on August 19, 2024, following reports of several gunshots heard on Marvon Downs Ave in Pakuranga Heights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2024\/08\/22\/police-name-man-killed-in-pakuranga-heights-shooting\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tuipulotu Vi<\/a>, 59, was found in a vehicle with gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Detective Inspector Shaun Vickers said police had charged a 35-year-old Waiuku man with murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;This is the second man to appear in court over Mr Vi\u2019s death and we cannot rule out further arrests being made in this investigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">A 23-year-old man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2025\/09\/18\/arrest-after-man-murdered-in-pakuranga-heights-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">had been charged<\/a> with being a party to Vi&#8217;s murder in September last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-greyDarkFaded\">The morning&#8217;s headlines in 90 seconds, including the US sinks an Iranian warship killing dozens, help is on the way for stranded New Zealanders, and Finn Allen powers the Black Caps to a T20 World cup final. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been charged with murder after a courier driver was shot dead in his vehicle in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-313554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-auckland","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","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\/313554","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=313554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}