Police respond to a shooting in Invercargill. / ODT
The person who shot a 52-year-old man in Invercargill yesterday is still at large, police say.
The victim in the shooting is now out of surgery and is in a stable condition. He was found with a gunshot wound on Kelvin St at around 9.15am yesterday.
Police were this eveningin the process of formally speaking with the victim in hospital.
Southern police said they were still in the early stages of their investigation, and the offender has not been located.
The Armed Offenders Squad was called as a precaution yesterday. But police said today there was no threat to public safety following the shooting
Officers were interviewing several witnesses to the incident.
Invercargill resident Caitlin Barton said yesterday she saw a man lying on the footpath as she drove to work.
"He was lying flat as if he had slipped on ice and had a back injury. Lots of people were crowding around him and an ambulance came flying past me ... I didn't think it was a shooting until I saw it on Facebook."
