Gun Policy News, 24 January 2009
Innocent Teenager Killed by Stray Police Bullet in New Zealand Shootout
24 January 2009
3 News (New Zealand)
It is a black day for New Zealand's police force. They have admitted this afternoon that the Armed Offenders Squad (AOS) killed an innocent teenage father in yesterday's motorway shootout.
Seventeen-year-old Halatau Naitoko, known as Tau, was shot in the chest as police attempted to stop a gun-toting offender who had just led them on a high-speed chase around Auckland.
A post-mortem on his body revealed the police had made a fatal mistake.
"The ballistics expert has... (GunPolicy.org)