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Witnesses have described hiding from gunfire, watching an officer fall and seeing an armed man calmly stroll from the fatal shooting of Constable Matthew Hunt.
Eli Epiha (pictured) is on trial at the High Court in Auckland and has admitted killing officer Matthew Hunt.
Photo: RNZ / Nick Monro
Witnesses have described hiding from gunfire, watching an officer fall and seeing an armed man calmly stroll from the fatal shooting of Constable Matthew Hunt.
Eli Epiha is on trial at the High Court in Auckland after fleeing police in Massey, crashing into a parked car and a bystander, then firing 14 shots, hitting two officers.
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Warning: This story contains some graphic detail and may be distressing to readers.
Paramedics have described arriving at a chaotic scene in Auckland last June, after the shooting of two police officers who had been carrying out a routine traffic stop.
Eli Epiha appeared in the High Court in Auckland, where he has pleaded guilty to murdering constable Matthew Hunt and dangerous driving causing injury.
He also admits shooting Hunt s colleague David Goldfinch, but denies it was attempted murder.
Epiha is on trial before Justice Venning and a jury.
This morning St John officer Joanne Stewart recounted finding Goldfinch lying on the ground on Reynella Drive in Massey, with a graze on his hip and two jagged looking puncture wounds on his leg.
Eli Epiha on trial at the Auckland High Court.
Photo: RNZ / Nick Monro
Meanwhile, a second officer who was shot in the leg and seriously injured can today be named as David Goldfinch.
RNZ can reveal 25-year-old Eli Epiha pleaded guilty to Hunt s murder and dangerous driving last Wednesday.
A court order meant the plea could not be reported until now.
Epiha denies the attempted murder of Goldfinch and he is on a trial before a jury of seven men and five women in the High Court in Auckland.
Justice Venning told the jury that they must not assume because he was guilty of murdering Hunt, that he was automatically guilty on the attempted murder