Two people have died after a shooting in Nelson.<\/p>\n
Nelson Mayor Nick Smith said the incident had left many people traumatised.<\/p>\n
“The alarm was raised when a shotgun was stolen from Hunting & Fishing in Quarantine Rd and then the offender has gone on to Parkers Rd where the tragedy occured”.<\/p>\n
Police said just before noon on Friday they received information about the theft of a shotgun from a store in the suburb of Annesbrook. The offender then left the area in a vehicle before officers arrived at the scene.<\/p>\n
A short time later, police were alerted to a firearms incident on Parkers Road.<\/p>\n
When officers arrived, they found a man and a woman, both dead.<\/p>\n
Initial enquiries suggested the two people who died knew each other, police said.<\/p>\n
Acting Tasman District Commander Superintendent Blair Macdonald said this was an isolated incident and there was no ongoing threat to public safety.<\/p>\n
However, people were asked avoid the area, and cordons were in place.<\/p>\n
Smith said police told him no-one further was being sought in connection to the events.<\/p>\n
“Nelson prides itself of being a safe city and this tragedy impacts on us all. Our hearts go out to all those affected and particularly the families of the deceased,” Smith said.<\/p>\n
“My thanks to Police and St John for their professional response, keeping others safe and care for those directly impacted.”<\/p>\n
Nelson MP Rachel Boyack said “this is an extremely sad day for our community”.<\/p>\n
One ambulance and one operations manager had responded to the incident, a Hato Hone St John spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
The Transport Agency said State Highway 6 – Tahunanui Drive, between Parkers Road and Green Street, had been closed by police, but was reopened on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have died after a shooting in Nelson. Nelson Mayor Nick Smith said the incident had left…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-589765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","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\/589765","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=589765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}