{"id":409092,"date":"2026-05-03T00:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T00:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/409092\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T00:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T00:05:09","slug":"waihi-shooting-armed-police-swarm-rosemont-rd-after-gun-fired-at-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/409092\/","title":{"rendered":"Waih\u012b shooting: Armed police swarm Rosemont Rd after gun fired at car"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhile this took place, the alleged offender discharged a firearm towards a vehicle within the cordon,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cPolice have spoken with the occupant of the vehicle and there are no reported injuries. <\/p>\n

\u201cStaff were armed during this incident as a precaution, and the Armed Offenders Squad was in attendance.\u201d <\/p>\n

The police negotiation team engaged with the man before he was taken into custody at around 12.10am.<\/p>\n

All cordons have since been stood down and Rosemont Rd has reopened to the public. <\/p>\n

\u201cMembers of Waih\u012b community may see an increased police presence in the area while our enquiries into the incident continue,\u201d Gemmell said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to commend our attending staff on their response to this incident, negotiating a tricky situation to get a peaceful resolution. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe understand these incidents can be distressing to those within our community and we thank them for their co-operation and understanding while this incident unfolded.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 40-year-old man is due to appear in Hamilton District Court tomorrow, charged with unlawful possession of a prohibited firearm, unlawful possession of a firearm, possession of methamphetamine and possession of a cannabis plant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWhile this took place, the alleged offender discharged a firearm towards a vehicle within the cordon,\u201d he said.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,7818,7814,1975,3944,29059,26663,3606,685,36661,111,43,139,2551,69,675,2642,210449,7819,10117,4477,39537,6845,26762,102],"class_list":["post-409092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-allegedly","tag-armed","tag-at","tag-car","tag-descended","tag-fired","tag-gun","tag-last","tag-nearby","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-night","tag-nz","tag-police","tag-rd","tag-rosemont","tag-shooting","tag-shot","tag-striking","tag-swarm","tag-vehicle","tag-waih","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409092","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=409092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}