A convicted violent criminal, on home detention, without a firearms licence, has committed another violent crime resulting in the death of two other people and multiple injuries.
The man at the centre of a downtown Auckland shooting rampage at a construction site earlier today was Matu Tangi Matua Reid, aged 24.
Reid died in a lift shaft after shooting several civilians and at least one police officer in the high-rise construction site on Thursday morning.
At the time of the shooting he was serving a sentence of five months’ home detention for domestic violence charges, handed down in the Auckland District Court on March 28.
He had approval to travel from the property he was serving home detention at in South Auckland to the building site.
His home detention sentence was monitored via an ankle bracelet monitor.
Reid had appeared for sentencing in the Auckland District Court earlier this year after admitting charges of impeding breathing, injuring with intent to injure, wilful damage, and male assaults female.
He was sentenced to five months’ home detention on the four charges when he appeared for sentence before Judge Stephen Bonnar KC on March 28.
NZ Herald
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