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2023 Auckland shooting
| 2023 Auckland shooting | |
|---|---|
 Lower Queen Street in February 2023. One Queen Street is under construction in the centre, with the ferry terminal beyond it. Britomart station is at near right. | |
| Location | One Queen Street, Auckland, New Zealand |
| Coordinates | 36°50′36″S 174°46′00″E / 36.84333°S 174.76667°E |
| Date | 20 July 2023 7:20 am (NZST; UTC+12) |
Attack type | Mass shooting, workplace shooting, murder-suicide |
| Weapons | Pump-action shotgun |
| Deaths | 3 (including the perpetrator) |
| Injured | 10 (7 by gunfire)[1] |
| Perpetrator | Matu Tangi Matua Reid |
On the morning of 20 July 2023, a mass shooting occurred at a building construction site in the central business district of Auckland. The shooter, 24-year-old Matu Tangi Matua Reid, killed two colleagues with a shotgun, wounded seven other people, including a police officer, and then killed himself.[2][3][4]
A separate, unrelated, fatal shooting also took place in the Auckland CBD, on the same street, two weeks later on 3 August 2023.[5][6]
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Swiftwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Live: Auckland shooting: Multiple people believed dead, police officer hit". Stuff. 19 July 2023. Retrieved 19 July 2023.
- ^ Rankin, Anna (19 July 2023). "Auckland shooting: police shut down city streets amid reports of gunman". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 19 July 2023. Retrieved 19 July 2023.
- ^ "Auckland CBD gunman named as Matu Reid, 24". 1 News. Archived from the original on 22 July 2023. Retrieved 20 July 2023.
- ^ "Two critical after downtown Auckland shooting - gunman flees on Lime scooter". NZ Herald. 5 August 2023. Retrieved 5 August 2023.
- ^ Rankin, Anna (4 August 2023). "New Zealand: one person dies in hospital after Auckland shooting". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 5 August 2023.
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