Father on run with three children in wilderness believed to be shot dead during armed confrontation with police
In a statement on Monday, the police are believed to be shot and killed during an armed clash with a police responding to a police, a fugitive father hiding in the wild nature of the intense New Zealand wild nature, with a police responding to a police.
The police were wounded in confrontation after being hit on his head.
“The official identity has not yet been realized yet, but we believe it is Tom Phillips,” Deputy Commissioner Jill Rogers told journalists on Monday.
One of the children believed to be Phillips at that time and believed that he was in custody by the police. A big search for the remaining children continues.
Thomas Callam Phillips disappeared with his children in December 2021, and despite various landscapes, despite objections and searching for a police, the family was a mystery.
The police believe that they live from the network that uses survival skills to feed, host and wear their father.
In the early hours of Monday, the local police were invited to a participation reports in an agricultural stores in Poipoi, a town in the Western Waikato Region on the northern island of the country, which was believed to have been hiding.
The police followed a four -wheeled farm bike with two people and left the stage on a pebble road and set up road increases at a nearby intersection.
Rogers said, “Four bicycle passed over the pointed ends. Two passengers boarded this bike and began to rest on this rural road. Shortly after, the first police officer on this scene confronted four bikes and confronted with a gun from close distance.”
The officer was hit on his head and covered. When another police officer came to the scene, they fired Phillips.
“There was a second person on the stage and there were more than one firearm weapons on and around four bicycles, R said Rokers.
The wounded officer was sent to Waikato Hospital and operated.
Rogers said that finding the other two children is a priority.
Tom Phillips sister Rozzi Phillips confirmed that he was killed by CNN member and public broadcaster Rnz.
Jayda is missing with Maverick and Ember Phillips and their father Thomas Phillips since December 2021. – New Zealand Police
Call the remaining children
Since their father could not bring them home in December 2021, the police repeatedly expressed their serious concerns for Jayda, Maverick and Embar children who had no contact with their mothers.
Phillips and children are believed to be hiding in busy shrubs in the rural area near Marakopa continues a major police operation.
“The police want the police and the people to respect the police operation and the cords to ensure that no one is at risk,” the New Zealand police said.
Only two weeks ago, law enforcement officers, Phillips of what they believe to be the security camera images and Monday’s shooting in the same town in the same town in the early morning images of the images of one of the children.
Last June, the police offered 80,000 New Zealand Dollars ($ 52,000) for information that led to their positions and safe feedback.
Phillips’ alleged crime series, in May 2023, a bank’s armed robbery, two people in a security camera fleeing a motorcycle with cash money.
Phillips has already faced a number of accusations such as aggravated robbery, heavy injury and having a firearm.
The mother of children, known as CAT, told CNN Affiliate Rnz on Monday morning, “(Our children) said that this strawberry is over”.
“We have been missing very much every day for about four years and we are looking forward to inviting them home with love and care,” he said.
“At the same time, we are upset about how events emerged today. Our hope is that it can be returned peacefully and safely for everyone involved in the children.”
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