Young murder victim died in mum's arms as primary school students walked home
A young gang member initially implicated in two Auckland murders during an alleged month-long crime spree in 2019 asked a judge for leniency as he was sentenced for one of the fatal shootings — involving an unarmed stranger who was turning away when the fatal blast rang out. Tamati Kas Simpson, now 26, was 21 when he gunned down 23-year-old Faaifo “Joe” Siaosi, who bled to death in his mother’s arms in the front yard outside the family’s Ōtara home. The gunman’s age at the time - and the