One of the occupants of the home targeted on Thursday's shooting told Checkpoint of the moment six gunshots were fired as his family slept.
Tuporo Maroroa says he and his family ran for their lives as the bullets showered the front of his family's Palmers Rd home.
"About 4 o'clock, just heard, like, six gunshots, just firing at our house. We all just woke up and ran outside," he said.
Tuporo lives there with his father, brother and sister.
A spray of bullets left gaping holes in the front of their home and car windows, with shrapnel showering the family's letterbox.
"Everyone was just shocked," he said.
"I don't even know why this happened. Just out of the blue - never happened before - so everyone's just in shock."
Tuporo is not certain who may have pulled the trigger, but believes the attempted theft of one of the family's motorbikes in recent weeks could be linked to the shooting.
One thing he does know is he is lucky he was not shot. He was fast asleep in a room at the front of the house that had its windows partially blown out.
"Right where the window is, is where my bed is," he said.
"So it was close ... just lucky nobody got hurt."
Neighbours said shootings were far from common on the suburban main road.
They told Checkpoint it is a scare they do not need.
"You'd be shocked, especially if you're getting shot at," one neighbour said.
"[It] could take someone's life, all it takes is one moment, and you're gone. Of course you'd be shocked."
A neighbour living directly next door to the house that was targeted said she was scared.
"[It makes] me worried because I've got a young kid, I've got two children," she said.
"So, it's too scary ... too close to home. We don't want anything happening around us here - this is a quiet place."
A police spokesperson said officers have spoken with the family and support has been offered to them.
Possible gang links will form part of the investigation.
Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to contact Counties-Manukau Police.
