2023 Auckland shooting

2023 Auckland shooting
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.
LocationOne Queen Street, Auckland, New Zealand
Coordinates36°50′36″S 174°46′00″E / 36.84333°S 174.76667°E / -36.84333; 174.76667
Date20 July 2023
7:20 am (NZST; UTC+12)
Attack type
Mass shooting, workplace shooting, murder-suicide
WeaponsPump-action shotgun
Deaths3 (including the perpetrator)
Injured10 (7 by gunfire)[1]
PerpetratorMatu Tangi Matua Reid

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 colleagues with a shotgun, wounded seven other people, including a police officer, and then killed himself.[2][3][4]

A separate, unrelated, fatal shooting also took place in the Auckland CBD, on the same street, two weeks later on 3 August 2023.[5][6]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Swift was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Live: Auckland shooting: Multiple people believed dead, police officer hit". Stuff. 19 July 2023. Retrieved 19 July 2023.
  3. ^ Rankin, Anna (19 July 2023). "Auckland shooting: police shut down city streets amid reports of gunman". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 19 July 2023. Retrieved 19 July 2023.
  4. ^ "Auckland CBD gunman named as Matu Reid, 24". 1 News. Archived from the original on 22 July 2023. Retrieved 20 July 2023.
  5. ^ "Two critical after downtown Auckland shooting - gunman flees on Lime scooter". NZ Herald. 5 August 2023. Retrieved 5 August 2023.
  6. ^ Rankin, Anna (4 August 2023). "New Zealand: one person dies in hospital after Auckland shooting". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 5 August 2023.