A 19-year-old man was charged with possession of an offensive weapon after shots were fired at a vehicle on Monday. Two other men, aged 19 and 23, were charged with unlawful assembly and assault in relation to another firearms incident. All three men appeared in Gisborne District Court on Tuesday. Meanwhile, police are investigating how a man who arrived at Wairoa Hospital with a gunshot wound to his leg was injured. Aberahama said police had been alerted to other instances where firearms were pointed at people or vehicles, but had not been discharged. He acknowledged that firearms incidents could put people on edge, however, police believed the incidents involved “specific groups of people targeting each other”.
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