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Maketū Wharetōtara murders. 1841. Kororareka, Northland. 5. Maketū Wharetōtara, also known as Wiremu Kīngi Maketū, became the first person officially executed in New Zealand (7 March 1842) [ 18][ 19] Invasion of the Chatham Islands and Moriori genocide. November 1835. Chatham Islands. 2000.
Two consecutive mass shootings took place in Christchurch, New Zealand, on 15 March 2019.They were committed by a single perpetrator during Friday prayer, first at the Al Noor Mosque in Riccarton, overlooking Hagley Park, at 1:40 p.m., and second, after driving at speed across town, at the Linwood Islamic Centre at 1:52 p.m.
The Christchurch Masjidain Attack Inquiry[ a] is a coronial inquiry by the Coronial Services of New Zealand into the Christchurch mosque shootings which occurred on 15 March 2019. The coronial inquiry was preceded by criminal proceedings and a Royal Commission of Inquiry. [ 2] The scope stage of the Inquiry was held between 22 and 24 February ...
Perpetrator. Matu Tangi Matua Reid. On the morning of 20 July 2023, a mass shooting occurred at a building construction site in the central business district of Auckland. The shooter, 24-year-old Matu Tangi Matua Reid, killed two colleagues with a shotgun, wounded seven other people, including a police officer, and then killed himself.
Aramoana massacre. The Aramoana massacre was a mass shooting that occurred on 13 November 1990 in the small seaside township of Aramoana, northeast of Dunedin, New Zealand. [ 2] Resident David Gray [ 3] killed 13 people, including local police Sergeant Stewart Guthrie, one of the first responders to the reports of a shooting, after a verbal ...
New Zealand has a relatively low rate of gun violence compared to other developed countries despite its formerly lax gun laws. [128] [98] The country has experienced three major mass shootings since the late 20th century. [129] [130] [99] The first mass shooting occurred in Aramoana, a small town on the east coast of the South Island, in 1990 ...
Injured. 4. Perpetrator. Stephen Lawrence Anderson. Verdict. Found not guilty by reason of insanity. The Raurimu massacre was a 1997 mass shooting that occurred in Raurimu, New Zealand. Stephen Anderson murdered six people and wounded four. The massacre was one of the five most deadly mass shootings in the country's history.
On 20 May 1992, 64-year-old Brian Schlaepfer murdered six members of his family on their Paerata farm, near Pukekohe, Auckland Region, New Zealand before he shot himself. The massacre was one of the most high-profile shootings in New Zealand's history.