Aramoana massacre
1990 mass shooting in Aramoana, New Zealand / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Aramoana massacre was a mass shooting that occurred on 13 November 1990 in the small seaside township of Aramoana, northeast of Dunedin, New Zealand.[2] Resident David Gray[3] killed 13 people, including local police Sergeant Stewart Guthrie, one of the first responders to the reports of a shooting, after a verbal dispute between Gray and his next-door neighbour. After a careful house-to-house search the next day, police officers led by the Anti-Terrorist Squad (now known as the Special Tactics Group) located Gray, and shot and injured him as he came out of a house firing from the hip.[4][5] He died in an ambulance while being transported to hospital.
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Location | Aramoana, Otago Harbour, New Zealand |
Date | 13ā14 November 1990 7:30 ā 5:50 p.m. |
Attack type | Mass shooting, siege, shootout, arson |
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Deaths | 14 (including the perpetrator) |
Injured | 3 |
Perpetrator | David Malcolm Gray |
At the time, the incident was the deadliest mass shooting in New Zealand's history, being surpassed 29 years later by the Christchurch mosque shootings.[6] After the shootings, sweeping changes were made to New Zealand's firearms legislation in 1992, including 10-year photographic licences and tight restrictions on military style semi-automatic firearms.[7]