{"id":6990,"date":"2023-08-04T07:26:29","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T19:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=6990"},"modified":"2023-08-04T07:26:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T19:26:29","slug":"two-people-critically-injured-in-queen-street-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=6990","title":{"rendered":"Two people critically injured in Queen Street shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people are in a critical condition following a shooting on Auckland&#8217;s lower Queen Street.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called following reports of a fight between a group of people on the corner of Fort and Queen streets at about 11.30pm on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>A small group of people started fighting before one person pulled out a firearm and fired a number of shots, Detective Senior Sergeant Craig Bolton of Auckland CIB, said.<\/p>\n<p>One victim sustained a gunshot wound to the head and the other received a gunshot wound to the abdomen.<\/p>\n<p>Both were taken to Auckland hospital in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe that this was an isolated incident and there is no ongoing risk to the community,&#8221; Bolton said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police have zero tolerance for violence in public places, especially where firearms are used, and are working to hold the offenders to account.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-full photo-cntr eight_col \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rnz-ressh.cloudinary.com\/image\/upload\/s--Yup64FmZ--\/ar_16:10,c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,q_auto,w_1050\/v1691088565\/4L4TD1P_MicrosoftTeams_image_png\" alt=\"An area of Auckland's lower Queen Street which was reopened on Friday morning after being cordoned off overnight.\" width=\"1050\" height=\"787\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\"><span class=\"caption\">An incident support unit on lower Queen Street on Friday morning.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photo:\u00a0RNZ \/ Felix Walton<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>One person was seen fleeing the scene on a Lime Scooter, wearing distinctive red and black pants and a red hat.<\/p>\n<p>Police were following positive lines of enquiry and asked anyone with information to come forward, Bolton said.<\/p>\n<p>RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two people are in a critical condition following a shooting on Auckland&#8217;s lower Queen Street. Police were called following reports of a fight between a group of people on the corner of Fort and Queen streets at about 11.30pm on Thursday. A small group of people started fighting before one person pulled out a firearm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6992,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6990\/revisions\/6992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}