The armed offenders squad, police eagle helicopter, dozens of police and the ambulance service responded to reports of a man shooting at a house bus on the Coromandel Peninsula yesterday.
Police last night were continuing to look for the man.
Police were alerted the domestic violence incident at a property near the Kopu-Hikuai Rd (State Highway 26A) at 2.10pm.
"A number of shots" were allegedly fired by a man at a house bus, police said.
The man had not been located by 6pm and police lifted the cordons that had been blocking the road, which connects the eastern Hauraki Plains area with the eastern Coromandel Peninsula.