Auckland CBD shooting: Community rallies round victims’ families – Medical Marijuana Program Connection

The South Auckland community are rallying around the families of the two men who lost their lives in the Auckland CBD shooting at daybreak last Thursday.

On July 20, 24-year-old Matu Tangi Matua Reid travelled to a construction site at 1 Queen St in Auckland’s CBD, and opened fire on a number of construction workers.

Reid had been working on the construction site, one of well over 100 contractors from various firms.

Reid’s motivation behind the shooting is not yet confirmed, but it’s understood it related to his employment at the site.

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Police confirmed the two men who died during the shooting were Solomona Tootoo and Tupuga Sipiliano.

Tootoo, 45, was from Manurewa and Sipiliano, 44, was from Wattle Downs.

Councillors from the south Auckland area have been supporting the families of the victims along with the wider community.

Manurewa-Papkura Ward councillor Daniel Newman had been helping one victim’s families to make funeral arrangements.

“They are in a state of absolute shock and grief,” Newman said.

”No one expects to go to work and lose their lives.”

Newman said his community was “nervous about the growing sense of lawlessness” in Aotearoa, suggesting that…