2023 Auckland shooting
On the morning of 20 July 2023, a mass shooting occurred at a building construction site in the central business district of Auckland. The shooter, 24-year-old Matu Tangi Matua Reid, killed two work colleagues with a shotgun, wounded seven other people, including a police officer, and then killed himself.
| 2023 Auckland shooting | |
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Lower Queen Street in February 2023. One Queen Street is under construction in the centre, with the ferry terminal beyond it. Britomart station is at near right. | |
| Location | One Queen Street, Auckland, New Zealand |
| Coordinates | 36°50′36″S 174°46′00″E |
| Date | 20 July 2023 7:20 am (NZST; UTC+12) |
Attack type | Mass shooting, workplace shooting |
| Weapons | Pump-action shotgun |
| Deaths | 3 (including the perpetrator) |
| Injured | 10 (7 by gunfire) |
| Perpetrator | Matu Tangi Matua Reid |
A separate, unrelated, fatal shooting also took place in the Auckland CBD, on the same street, two weeks later on 3 August 2023.
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