Police say the person responsible for the murder of a family man and road worker near Tokoroa has local knowledge of the area.
Police told a press conference today they had tracked where a blue 4WD, which fled the scene, had gone shortly after the fatal shooting of Hamilton man George Taiaroa.
The shooting happened on Tuesday at 3.15pm on Tram Rd, a short stretch of rural road in the Kinleith Forest area which bridges the Waikato River.
Detective Inspector Mark Loper said they now wanted more information from the public to try and locate the vehicle, which may be a Jeep Cherokee.
"It has moved through the bush, through the web of road ways and forestries and has come out onto the roadway which runs between Benneydale and Mangakino. From there we are trying to track it."