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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-786/
- Published: 2023-07-20T18:30:51.000Z
- Updated: 2023-07-20T23:08:44.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Crime, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:22

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.  
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> Reid [died in a lift shaft after shooting several civilians and at least one police officer](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/downtown-auckland-shooting-worker-tells-of-terrifying-moment-gunman-threatened-to-shoot-him/Y4Y67LDLTNANXCUWKS5A4QHI3A/?ref=goodoil.news) in the high-rise construction site on Thursday morning.  
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> 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.  
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> He had approval to travel from the property he was serving home detention at in South Auckland to the building site.  
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> His home detention sentence was monitored via an ankle bracelet monitor.  
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> 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.**  
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> 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.  
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> NZ Herald

[Read more here](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-cbd-shooting-dead-gunman-was-young-auckland-man-on-home-detention-for-domestic-violence/RZA3IHZTZVCMLNXJVOPBMN3MFI/?ref=goodoil.news). Discuss it on *The BFD.*

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