2023 Auckland shooting

Matu Tangi Matua Reid entered the One Queen Street building in the Auckland CBD with a pump-action shotgun on 20 July 2023. Reid had been employed at the construction site, and the shooting is believed to have been related to his employment there. Reid moved through the building and opened fire at about 7:20am NZST, shooting and killing two construction workers who were his colleagues. Multiple other people were injured. Reid was later found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot. It was the first mass shooting in the country since the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings. ==Perpetrator==

Reid had received a community-based sentence for an assault committed in 2020. He committed further offences in a domestic violence incident in 2021, while serving the earlier sentence. For that he was sentenced to five months' home detention in March 2023, for the offences of impeding breathing (strangulation), injuring with intent to injure, wilful damage and "male assaults female". He had approval to leave home to attend work during his detention. He did not hold a firearms licence. ==Responses==

Emergency responses The immediate area around the Queen Street / Quay Street intersection was put under lockdown. Investigations and recovery efforts On 20 July, Hipkins confirmed that the New Zealand Police would launch a full investigation into the shooting, including how shooter Reid obtained the gun and whether there were any "red flags". That same day, the Department of Corrections launched an inquiry into its management of Reid's home detention. FIFA Women's World Cup The shooting occurred on the day of the opening ceremony and first match of the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, which were taking place in Auckland. The competition was jointly hosted by Australia and New Zealand. The ceremony, and the match between New Zealand and Norway, took place as planned on the evening of 20 July at Eden Park; In his initial address about the incident, Hipkins acknowledged that "clearly with the FIFA World Cup kicking off this evening there are a lot of eyes on Auckland", saying that the New Zealand government had been in conversation with FIFA and that the World Cup would go ahead as planned. The Italy team, who were also staying in a nearby hotel, could not leave to attend training due to police cordons. Other national teams in Auckland were unaffected. The FIFA Fan Festival, which had been planned to open on 20 July in Auckland CBD at The Cloud, was cancelled for the day with plans to open it at noon on 21 July. Minutes of silence were observed during the opening ceremonies (one in Auckland and one in Sydney, Australia) and before each of the opening matches in respect for the victims of the shooting. ==See also==