Two-Year-Old Child Shot Dead In South Auckland
- Publish date
- Thursday, 2 Jun 2016, 4:18PM

Police have confirmed a 2-year-old child found dead at a house in South Auckland suffered gunshot wounds.
Detective Inspector Faa Va'aelua told media at a press conference today that a firearm had been found at the address.
However, nobody at the address had a firearms license and inquiries were ongoing as to how the firearm was obtained.
Police were at a property in Favona Rd. Officers are knocking on doors and speaking with residents on the footpath.
A woman who lived nearby said a mother lived at the house with her partner.
She was a mother of four children: a 7-year-old girl, a 5-year-old boy, a girl aged 2 and a baby born at the end of last year.
More than a dozen police cars line the busy main road and a large cordon is in place.
Little information was available from emergency services but a resident on the street said she heard a "loud explosion" and then sounds of someone sobbing.
"I heard a very loud bang and then some people were getting on the next-door berm. Someone was crying really loudly. It was very sad sobbing," she told the Herald.
The woman, who did not want to be named, said she and several neighbours had come out of their houses following the noises.
Another neighbour told her a gun may have been involved.
"I've never heard that sort of noise before -- it was so very loud.
Police at the scene. Photo / Jason Oxenham
"There was someone sitting on the steps there with another child. And there was that sobbing, that really loud sobbing."
The woman said they did not know the family who lived at the property.
"When we go past, there's always toys and things out the front, so I presume they had children."
At the scene, police officers can be seen knocking on doors and speaking with residents on the footpath.
More than a dozen police cars line the busy main road and a large cordon has been put up.
Members of the public - possibly family, are being allowed into the cordoned off area. Photo / Susan Strongman
A third witness said she heard a loud bang, followed by people crying.
"I've never heard a shotgun before, but it was one of those really loud bangs, like a car backfiring."
Hysterical screaming can be heard coming from the property.
Members of the public -- possibly family, are being allowed into the cordoned off area.
For more on this story go to the NZ Herald.
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