Armed Offenders Squad brought in for Lower Hutt man suffering gunshot wounds

The wounded man was found in a group of flats down the end of a driveway in Waiwhetu, Lower Hutt. Photo/Melissa Nightingale

A man with "unexplained injuries" was not shot at the Lower Hutt flat he was found in according to a neighbour.

The man, who lives in a Housing New Zealand-owned flat down the end of a driveway off Whites Line East, was found by police on Thursday with serious injuries.

He was taken to Hutt Hospital and his injuries where he remains in a moderate and stable condition.

A neighbour told the Herald she looked out her window on Thursday to see Armed Offenders Squad officers heading towards the property.

The woman, who only wanted to be known as Kathleen, said the first she knew of the incident was when she looked out her window to see "people dressed all in black with big guns" moving into her back yard.

"There was a very young police woman, she said 'it's okay, we're just police'."

Kathleen watched from her living room window as an armed officer straddled her fence.

After a time, police left and a man was taken away in an ambulance.

She said police came to speak to her afterwards and told her the man had suffered gunshot wounds, but it hadn't happened at the property.

The small group of flats around where the man was found were quiet on Friday morning, with many neighbours either not home or not answering their doors.

A woman who lived just metres away said she didn't hear or notice anything until about 4pm when police arrived in the driveway.

She said a family lived in the flat in question.

A woman in the adjoining flat said she did not hear or see anything either.

A police spokeswoman said police are still the initial stages of their investigation and were speaking to the injured the man to establish the circumstances around the incident.