Findings from an independent police investigation into the death of Shargin Stephens is still at least three months away, an Independent Police Complaints Authority spokesman says.
Mr Stephens, 35, was shot twice in the stomach by a police officer on Te Ngae Rd in Rotorua on July 14 last year after Mr Stephens was wielding a slasher.
Police pepper-sprayed him and tasered him three times before he was shot near the Redwood Shopping Centre.
He died 12 days later in hospital.
The authority spokesman told the Rotorua Daily Post the investigation was a complex one and any findings would be at least three months away.