Woman shot on Napier street, 19-year-old arrested, as run of serious Hawke’s Bay crime continues

The Thackeray St scene in Napier, where police are investigating a shooting about 3am on Wednesday.

A woman has what police say are moderate injuries after an early-morning shooting in Napier.

It is the latest in a string of major police incidents in Hawke’s Bay in late January and early February.

Detective Sergeant Ryan Kemsley said police responded about 3am on Wednesday to a report a firearm had been discharged on Thackeray Street, Napier.

Police found a woman nearby, with injuries consistent with a gunshot wound, he said.

She was taken to hospital in moderate condition.

The alleged offender fled the scene in a vehicle but was found later at an address in Barker Road, Marewa.

A 19-year-old man was arrested and charged with wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm with a firearm and is due to appear in Napier District Court on Thursday.

Police have cordoned off the area outside Thackeray St, where a pair of slippers were on the footpath and a front fence was damaged, as if hit by a vehicle.

They would like to hear from witnesses or anyone with information about the shooting.

Witnesses told Hawke’s Bay Today they heard “a woman screaming and a loud bang”.

Information can be provided through 105, either online at 105.police.govt.nz or by calling 105, quoting the file number 260204/2691.

Information can also be provided anonymously through Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111.

In the 18 to 20 hours before the shooting, Hawke’s Bay police had started investigating several incidents.

They included an unexplained death, after a body was found at a property off Taihape Rd, about 900m from Omahu Village, on Tuesday morning.

A police investigation at a property off Taihape Rd, near Omahu, after a body was found. Photo / Doug Laing

On Tuesday afternoon at least four masked offenders smashed their way through the Michael Hill Jeweller site in the Napier CBD.

Also on Tuesday, a man died after he was allegedly assaulted in Napier’s West Quay bar quarter early on Sunday morning.

A 21-year-old had been charged with wounding with intent to injure.

A man has died after he was allegedly assaulted in Napier's West Quay area. Photo / Doug Laing

On Wednesday, a woman made a second appearance in court charged with murder after a man died in Savage Cres, Marewa, on January 16.

Police are also investigating a smash-and-grab raid, in which at least four men smashed the front door of Napier’s Z Mataruahou service station early on January 28. A teenager has been charged.

Doug Laing has worked in the news industry for almost 53 years, more than 40 of it in Hawke’s Bay with the Central Hawke’s Bay Press, the Napier Daily Telegraph, and, since 1999, Hawke’s Bay Today.