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2023 Auckland shooting
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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]
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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)[1] |
Perpetrator | Matu Tangi Matua Reid |
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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]