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The Independent Police Conduct Authority has found that, although two Armed Offenders Squad (AOS) officers were acting in self-defence when they fired at Astin Hooper immediately after he shot at them, their prior actions were not justified in the ...
House extensively damaged as authorities investigate cause
Police cleared of wrongdoing in fatal Tauranga shooting © RNZ The Independent Police Conduct Authority has cleared officers of any wrongdoing when they shot and killed a Tauranga man a year ago. Police shot him dead after negotiations failed and he was found holding a knife to his daughter's chest. The authority found the man posed a lethal and imminent threat to his daughter, so the shooting was justified. But it said a family liaison officer would have helped both police and the victim's family at the scene. "It was the responsibility of the Incident Controller to look beyond negotiating ...
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Tauranga shooting of a man by police in defence of hostages justified, report finds 16 Dec, 2020 09:09 PM 7 minutes to read Police on the scene at Oriana Crescent last year. Photo / File The police officer who fired the shot that killed a man holding his young children at knifepoint during a 15-hour hostage siege in Tauranga has spoken of the moment their eyes locked before he pulled the trigger. Findings released by the Independent Police Conduct Authority today revealed the officer was no more than three metres from the man when the shot was fired at 2.55pm on November 24 last year. The sh...
The house on Oriana Crescent, in Tauranga, where Ethan Kerapa was shot dead by police (FILE). The Armed Offenders Squad, Special Tactics Group and police negotiators all attended and negotiators were unable to persuade him to come out, or allow his daughters, aged six and four, out. It was an extremely hot day in Tauranga, and by early afternoon police received medical advice about the potentially deadly effects of the heat on the children, who were in an upstairs room with no ventilation. As far as police knew, the children had not had any food or water since the incident began, even th...