David White stuff.co.nz A Hillsborough local describes the “chaotic” scene he witnessed as armed police converged on his street.
A person has been shot by police in the central Auckland suburb of Hillsborough.
According to police, the person had a firearm and is now in a serious condition.
In a statement on Thursday morning, police said they’d been responding to a fleeing driver.
A pursuit began in the south Auckland suburb of Ōtāhuhu around 9am when a suspicious vehicle failed to stop for police.
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The situation travelled to Hillsborough in central Auckland, where it wound up in Lilac Grove.
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Detective Inspector Scott Beard arriving at the scene.
One person with a firearm was shot by police.
Police said they have also taken another person into custody from the vehicle, with police saying they are not looking for anyone else in connection to the incident.
A large police contingent quickly descended onto Lilac Grove, including officers with guns and detective inspector Scott Beard, who was taking statements from police colleagues.
Abigail Dougherty/Stuff Armed police detective inspector Scott Beard are at a scene of an incident at Lilac Grove in Hillsborough, Auckland.
A resident, who lives about 150m from the incident, said he heard a series of gunshots from Lilac Grove. He did not want to be identified for his own safety.
“We heard the five shots coming from the Lilac Grove direction, just after a number of cars came flying across Frederick St,” the witness said.
Another witness said he watched from his balcony as a grey sedan drove at high speed down Carlton St, pursued “bumper to bumper” by police cars shortly after 9am.
He said the car then raced to Lilac Grove, a dead end street heading down towards the shallow waters of the Manukau Harbour.
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Armed officers and an ambulance are in the Auckland suburb of Hillsborough.
The witness, who did not want to be named, said he was stunned that the car did not roll when it turned, given the speed at which it was traveling.
Another man living nearby, Santosh Puthran, said after the cars came flying by he heard four or five shots. The chaos was out of the ordinary for the sleepy suburb, Puthran said.
“It was such a quiet neighbourhood… We never had any issues.”
Lilac Grove remains cordoned off at the Fredrick St intersection and a significant number of officers and detectives remain in the cul-de-sac.
A St John ambulance left the scene about 10.20am.
Jordan Harris, 30, who also lives near the scene, said a stream of police cars and ambulances descended on the quiet street, which stretches down the Manukau Harbour, at about 9.30am.
Officers with guns surrounded a house and ambulance staff ran down the driveway to a house overlooking the water, as a helicopter circled above.
Harris said he heard police may have tailed the car after another incident in Ellerslie.
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An armed officer at Lilac Grove.
“There was emergency ambulance staff running down a private driveway at the bottom of the road. The police helicopter was hovering above the bank for a while.
“Everyone’s quite concerned, everyone’s out on their porches, we can’t get any closer than 100 metres.
“Never, ever have I seen anything like this in my life, let alone in Hillsborough.
“It’s all a bit chaotic.”
Earlier, a Stuff journalist saw 15 police cars surround a car with blacked-out windows on the northern motorway travelling north. The car being pursued left the motorway via the Mt Wellington off-ramp, to Lilac Grove.
Puketāpapa local board deputy chairman Jon Turner said he was out for a run along Hillsborough Rd this morning when he saw a police helicopter overheard and wondered what was going on.
The area was usually quiet, so it was shocking to hear what had happened, Turner said.
“It’s disturbing to have this happen in our community. We’re quite a tight-knit community and it’s quite a shock to the system to hear about.”
Turner said he hoped locals in the area were doing OK, as well as police involved in the incident.
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