Shot Tribesmen leader in critical condition
The national president of the Tribesmen bikie gang has been critically injured in a shooting in Auckland.
The high-ranking gang member arrived at Middlemore Hospital with at least one gunshot wound on Monday evening.
said they were called to the hospital 6.30pm. realised it was a shooting and hid in arsons in the upper North Island. a supermarket with her children. The two gangs reportedly
A second witness who called reached a truce in June. police, who Stuff has also agreed not However, Monday’s shooting has to name, said they were in a car reignited fears among police, and ¯theOnearbywhentheysawsomeone tara community, that the with a gun fire three shots. tensions between the two groups
The woman pulled over into a car will boil over again. park to get out of the way before the Manukau Ward Councillor Alf shooter and the victim ran off Filipaina said that he hoped the behind their van. ‘‘ To be honest, it shooting wouldn’t ‘‘kick-off’’ more felt very real. We’ve seen it on the violence if it was gang related. news but never in front of our eyes. ‘‘When is this going to end? ‘‘I just Was definitely a quiet ride back don’t want to see our community home,’’ she said. caught in between it if it is gang
Earlier this year, the Tribesmen related,’’ he said. gang was embroiled in a turf war Filipaina said he wanted police to with the Killer Beez, a rival that was quickly catch the shooter and open once a close ally. The conflict, which dialogue between the Tribesmen was centred in south Auckland, led and the offender to prevent further to a series of drive-by shootings and violence.
comment further,’’ a police
It’s believed he was shot in tarāO spokesperson said.
while he watched a parade A woman, whom Stuff has
celebrating Samoa’s win over Tonga agreed not to name, said she was
in the Rugby League World Cup. out shopping with her children in the
Police have launchedānofOcentre tara when she heard
investigation into the incident. They what sounded like fireworks about
about 6.50pm. But when a group of about 20
‘‘The man is currently being patched gang members who’d been
treated and police are unable to watching the parade scattered, she