Homicide Arrests
New Zealand Police National News Release
12:05pm 11 September 2008
http://www.police.govt.nz/news/release.html?id=4312
Counties/Manukau Police have arrested a 32 year-old Mangere man who will appear in the Manukau District Court charged
with murder today as a result of this morning's shooting of a Police Officer.
A second Mangere man, 34, has been arrested and will also appear in the Manukau District Court charged this afternoon
with assault.
Detective Inspector John Tims says the body of the officer killed in the line of duty, Sergeant Don Wilkinson of
Waimauku, has been removed from the Earlsworth Rd scene and will undergo a post-mortem examination today.
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