Man shot dead and cop injured in area where police are hunting for fugitive father four years after going on the run with his three children in New Zealand wilderness
One person was shot and killed by the police in the New Zealand region where federal Father Tom Phillips fled for four years.
Police stayed at the scene at Waitomo early on Monday morning.
It is understood that the police responded to theft when there is a conflict.
A police officer was shot before another officer opened fire and hit the suspect.
Another person was detained.
The wounded officer was taken to hospital in a serious situation.
Police commissioner Richard Chambers, the officer ‘conscious and other officers’ talked’ recommended.
Otorohanga Mayor Max Baxter was about Phillips after the incident. New Zealand Herald, “all kinds of rumors” about the operation.
In December 2021, Phillips disappeared from the rural town Marocopa on the northern island of New Zealand, now after 12, Maverick, Ten and Embar, Jayda, after a custody dispute with his mother.
Despite a large number of police search operations and $ 80,000 award, they have been believed to have lived in the wild since then.
It was a few possible landscapes last year – in February, it was detected when he sat in the south of the Kūiti in the South of the Four people wearing camouflage clothes.
More will come.
