A man has been seriously injured in South Auckland, with police still looking for another person believed to be involved in the incident.
St John said the injured man was taken to Middlemore Hospital in a serious condition after the incident on Maich Rd, Manurewa.
Police have since confirmed the incident was not a shooting.
St John was notified about 11.58am, sending one ambulance and rapid response unit, a spokesman said.
Police said they are trying to work out how the incident unfolded.
“Police are still establishing how the injuries were inflicted,” a spokeswoman said.
Police are making “inquiries at the address and in the nearby area to locate a person believed to be involved”.
The spokeswoman said the man’s injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.
About six police cars and a dozen officers, some armed, could be seen outside a two-storey home that has been taped off.
Two residents living in the rented Maich Rd house that has been taped off told the Herald they didn’t know what happened.
None of those living in the home had been hurt, and the first they knew that something was up was when they saw police on the property.
“I woke up and went to the kitchen, and saw cops coming up and down here, so I came to have a look and then they grabbed everyone out of our house,” one of the residents said.
”They said someone was injured, but everyone who lives here is [outside]. No one from here has been hurt.”
The resident said he lived at the house with three other men and “our auntie”.
Now, he was waiting outside in the rain dressed only in a t-shirt, shorts and jandals.
Police had told him it would probably be a couple of hours before the occupants could go back inside.
Other residents along the street earlier reported hearing multiple sirens as police and other emergency teams rush to the area.
The police Eagle helicopter could be seen circling overhead, while an armed officer stood guard at a cordon on the northern end of Maich Rd.
The cordon has since been lifted.
The 19-year-old disappeared without her wallet or mobile phone.