6 Dec 2019

Kurow in shock after well-known local shot dead by police

From Checkpoint, 5:40 pm on 6 December 2019

The small Otago township of Kurow is in shock after a well-known local was shot dead during a confrontation with armed police on Thursday night.

Police were called to the home of the man, whose name has been officially released, over concerns about suicide.

He was flown to Dunedin Hospital, where he died of his injuries this morning.

RNZ Otago-Southland reporter Timothy Brown visited the grieving community and filed this report.