{"id":637419,"date":"2026-10-21T23:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T23:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/637419\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T23:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T23:26:11","slug":"person-critically-injured-after-standoff-with-armed-police-in-west-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/637419\/","title":{"rendered":"Person critically injured after standoff with armed police in west Auckland"},"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]\">One person has been critically injured following an incident reportedly involving a firearm in west Auckland&#8217;s Massey overnight. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Police were called to the scene on M\u0101nutewhau Rd following reports of a male with a firearm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Police said last night specialist staff were at the scene and were &#8220;working to speak with the male to bring the situation to a safe conclusion&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/a-person-being-removed-from-the-property-in-west-aucklands-m-ZMAPUXJW7ZA23L3QTLW5S4VRRI.jpg\" alt=\"A person being removed from the property in west Auckland's Massey overnight. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">A person being removed from the property in west Auckland&#8217;s Massey overnight.  (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">1News footage from the scene in Massey showed police officers, including the armed offenders squad, and St John at the scene shortly before midnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">A St John spokesperson said it sent one ambulance, one rapid response vehicle and one operation manager to the scene shortly before 8pm. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/police-pictured-at-the-scene-in-massey-this-morning-D4JZCMZ5YREWRGYQCV6FQGADRA.jpg\" alt=\"Police pictured at the scene in Massey this morning. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">Police pictured at the scene in Massey this morning.  (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Shots were heard around midnight. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">One person in a critical condition was transported to Auckland City Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">A police cordon remained in place at the scene this morning. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person has been critically injured following an incident reportedly involving a firearm in west Auckland&#8217;s Massey overnight.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-637419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-auckland","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\/637419","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=637419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}