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The occupants of a house targeted in a drive-by shooting say they had just moved into the property a week ago and believe the incident was gang-related.
Police are investigating after a West Auckland house was shot at four times - shattering a window and damaging a fence.
The incident occurred in the early hours of this morning when residents reported hearing multiple gunshots on Cedar Heights Ave in Massey.
“Police were called at 2.08am and found four discharged shotgun cartridges on the road, a shattered window and damage to a fence,” a police spokesperson said.
The occupants of the house had recently moved in and were unharmed, the spokesperson said.
“A witness stated that they observed a black-coloured Subaru leaving the scene shortly after the shots were heard.”
A window is riddled by bullet holes after a Cedar Heights Ave home was shot at overnight. Photo / Akula Sharma
This morning the elderly resident of the home said he was asleep when gunfire rang out and thought it was connected to construction near to their property.
“I thought the people across the road had started work early ... they are building townhouses there.”
He and his wife had just shifted into the area and believed the shooters were looking for previous tenants.
“I moved here a week ago. They were looking for people before who lived here.”
“It was quite frightening. They were giving us a warning ... the guy who lives next door told us. I don’t know for what.
“We were sleeping in our room and we heard ‘pop pop’ and a big thump.
“I came outside and couldn’t see anything. Then the police came and found out there was a shooting I saw windows had bullet holes.
“We are very afraid it will happen again”.
Blood spattered at the entrance of Cedar Heights Ave house where one of the occupants was injured from shattered glass in a drive-by shooting. Photo / Akula Sharma
The resident said he had suffered an injury from broken glass, with blood splattered on the floor of his house.
He said police had told him it was gang-related.
The incident had rattled them and they were now looking at finding a new home.
“We will move. Our priority is our granddaughter who is only 14.
“She was very scared and didn’t want to go to school. so we are speaking to the police to sort this out and speak to past tenants. It is dangerous.”
Police had since found ammunition connected to the shooting near a parked blue van, he said.
Other residents living in the street told the Herald about being woken to the sound of gunfire outside their homes.
“I woke up just after the gunshots. It was the house on the opposite side of the street,” one resident said.
“I opened the curtains and three or four cop cars were there.”
Inquiries into the incident were underway, and anyone with information which might assist police was asked to contact them via 105 phone service or online using reference file number 230727/2506.
