Brooklyn Jenkins<\/a> shot his brother in the temple on the right side of his head with a small-calibre firearm.<\/p>\nHe shot him a second time and that shot grazed his head, leaving a deep laceration.<\/p>\n
Kyle Jenkins died at the scene.<\/p>\n
Brooklyn Jenkins then dragged his brother by the feet and rolled him down a bank, where he came to rest face down in a riverbed, out of sight from motorists.<\/p>\n
The defendant took his brother\u2019s mobile phone and threw it 15m into a deeper section of the stream.<\/p>\n
He then removed a 360-degree camera that was installed on his brother\u2019s motorbike and threw it into the bush.<\/p>\n
A local contacted police the following morning reporting there was an abandoned bike with two large pools of blood nearby.<\/p>\n
Police attended and located the victim down the bank.<\/p>\n
When police began their investigation they discovered Brooklyn Jenkins was a licensed firearm holder with several firearms, including a 12-gauge shotgun, a semi-automatic rifle, a single shotgun and two .22 rifles.<\/p>\n
An autopsy confirmed Kyle Jenkins had been shot at close range with a small-calibre firearm.<\/p>\n
Brooklyn Jenkins told police he killed his brother with a 9mm round that had been inserted into a 12-gauge shotgun with a special adaptor.<\/p>\n
He could not explain why he did it.<\/p>\n
He was charged with murder the day of his brother\u2019s funeral and initially pleaded not guilty. But, in March, he pleaded guilty.<\/p>\n
He was remanded in custody and will be sentenced in May.<\/p>\n
Shannon Pitman is a Whang\u0101rei-based reporter for Open Justice covering courts in the Te Tai Tokerau region. She is of Ng\u0101puhi\/ Ng\u0101ti P\u016bkenga descent and has worked in digital media for the past five years. She joined NZME in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the defendant approached the Loop Rd intersection with Otaika Valley Rd, the victim overtook his older brother…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[22061,31468,3368,9846,44012,15360,111,139,1067,69,90,3367,1314,213,61],"class_list":["post-402587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-brooklyn","tag-brother","tag-guilty","tag-jenkins","tag-kyle","tag-murdering","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-northland","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-pleads","tag-road","tag-sports","tag-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402587","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=402587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}