A Killer Beez gang member who participated in daylight gang warfare that terrorised South Auckland suburb Ōtara has been ordered today to serve four years and three months in prison.
Justice Pheroze Jagose directed that Paul Cassidy, 45, serve the sentence stacked on top of an eight years and eight months sentence he is already serving for serious drugs and firearms offending instead of allowing the sentences to run concurrently.
“People living at two of the targeted addresses have filed statements discussing the extreme terror they felt,” Jagose said. “Your offending had a continuing impact on their feelings of safety ... forcing some to relocate.”
Authorities have previously said the November 2020 shootings were meant to target members of rival gang the Tribesmen, but the damaged homes included neighbours who were inside at the time and had nothing to do with the gang warfare. No one was injured.
Cassidy pleaded guilty in August to three counts of intentionally damaging property by shooting at homes on three different roads, as well as one count of aggravated burglary of a home in the area and one count of participating in an organised criminal group.