{"id":637051,"date":"2026-10-21T05:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T05:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/637051\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T05:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T05:38:11","slug":"reckless-violence-shot-fired-in-whangarei-car-park-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/637051\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Reckless violence’: Shot fired in Whang\u0101rei car park dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 24-year-old man has been charged after allegedly firing a gun during a car park dispute in Whang\u0101rei over the weekend. <\/p>\n

An investigation led by Northland CIB has been underway since the incident occurred at a Vine Street car park just before 2am on Sunday. <\/p>\n

Detective Senior Sergeant Aaron Crawford said inquiries led officers to a south Auckland address last night, where a person of interest was found in Papakura just before 7pm. <\/p>\n

“Our colleagues in Counties Manukau, including the Armed Offenders Squad, approached a President Avenue property and took the man into custody without incident,” he said. <\/p>\n

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President Avenue in Papakura (File image). (Source: Google Maps)<\/p>\n

A 24-year-old Kaipara man has been charged with discharging a firearm with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, and unlawful possession of a firearm.<\/p>\n

He was due to appear in the Manukau District Court today.<\/p>\n

Crawford said officers were still making into inquiries into why the incident took place, but believed it to be an “isolated incident following a dispute”.<\/p>\n

“We will not tolerate reckless violence such as this in our community, and it\u2019s pleasing that we\u2019ve been able to make an arrest in this case,” he added. <\/p>\n

Police were still seeking witnesses to Sunday morning’s incident, and urged anyone with information to report this to 105.<\/p>\n

“We are aware there a number of people on Vine Street at the time the firearm was discharged, and we would still like to speak with them as part of this investigation,” Crawford said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 24-year-old man has been charged after allegedly firing a gun during a car park dispute in Whang\u0101rei…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,67,111,43,139,1067,69],"class_list":["post-637051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-auckland","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-northland","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637051","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=637051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}