Police on The 309 Road, Coromandel, after a fatal shooting on Friday. Photo: RNZ / Chris Bruce
Residents of Waiau will be reeling from a shooting that left one person dead and another seriously injured, the local MP says.
Police were called to The 309 Road just after 2pm Friday, where two people were found with gunshot wounds. One later died and another was airlifted to Auckland City Hospital.
A person was arrested and charges were being considered, police said on Friday.
They were not seeking anyone else.
Coromandel MP Scott Simpson said this was not the way Coromandel residents would want to start their Christmas season.
"The 309 Road is a really special part of the Coromandel," he said.
"It's an unsealed metalled piece of road - it's in many respects like Coromandel [that] used to be in classic years gone by.
"It's a tight-knit community and I'm very much feeling for those people who live in and are part of that community as we come to terms with this news."
- Read more: What we know about The 309 Road
A former army medic who gave CPR to one of the victims said they were pig hunters.
The man, who did not want to be named, told Checkpoint that he was serving customers at his small business when someone told him they had heard gun shots.
The man said he found an injured man near the edge of his property. He put him in the recovery position and got a compression bandage, for what looked like a gunshot wound, before starting CPR. The victim did not survive his injuries.
He said he later noticed there was a second man, who appeared to be a "young lad" in his 20s, who had a gunshot wound to the upper chest. He was later airlifted to hospital.
The man said 120 children were on-site celebrating the end of the school year.
He did not think they would have seen anything as they left through a different exit on the property.
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