Kirsty Lawrence16:42, Jul 15 2021
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Police locked down the scene around the shootout in the Hamilton suburb of Hillcrest and it remained cordoned off in the morning.
A silver car with its rear window punctured by bullet holes sits in a suburban Hamilton carpark next to a block of flats. Its driver is dead after the first in a pair of violent but unrelated confrontations – first in Hamilton late on Wednesday night, and then Auckland on Thursday afternoon – saw police involved in gun battles only hours apart. The first, in the eastern Hamilton suburb of Hillcrest, involved what neighbours described as a “large volley of gunfire” ringing across the usually quiet street near Waikato University.