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A man was found heavily bleeding outside an Auckland supermarket this afternoon after a nearby vehicle was shot at.
The man was seen bleeding from his ear outside the Hobsonville Woolworths after a witness reported hearing a “pop and then a crack”.
It is not clear how the manwas injured.
Detective Senior Sergeant Mark Renfree said a police investigation is now under way after what appears to be an altercation between two groups of people.
“A firearm has been discharged towards a vehicle. Thankfully, there were no reports of injury in relation to this.
“However, one person has been injured with a weapon and transported to hospital with moderate injuries,” Renfree said.
Police are currently making a number of inquiries and would like to speak to anyone who was in the area at the time, as they are working to locate those responsible.
A nearby worker told the Herald she saw a truck driving erratically around the parking lot about when the incident unfolded.
A worker at a local takeaway shop told the Herald she heard three loud bangs and shut her door immediately.
The Woolworths supermarket in Hobsonville where a man was injured in a suspected shooting.
She said she saw a black ute driving in the wrong direction around the parking lot, “very aggressively”.
“It’s just so shocking.”
Jini, a nearby shopper, saw the aftermath of the incident and spoke to the injured man.
She told the Herald she was at the supermarket for a bag of chips and then ducked across to the liquor store, where she saw a black modified jeep drive in the wrong direction in the car park like a “maniac”.
She said the man driving appeared to be “very jittery“.
“There was a lot of noise, sounded like a pop and then a crack,” she said.
She then saw a man in the car park bleeding from his ear.
“It was a big gash, blood everywhere.”
She said lots of shoppers nearby ran to help, including a paramedic who happened to be in the area.
