8 Sep 2025

Waikato incident: RNZ's crime correspondent Sam Sherwood

From Nine To Noon, 9:05 am on 8 September 2025
No caption

Photo: RNZ / Nate McKinnon

More now on this morning's breaking news - and what RNZ understands is the shooting and wounding of a police officer and the shooting dead of a suspected burglar. 

This took place in western Waikato and a resident in the settlement of Marokopa has told RNZ to road out is closed. 

The area is near where police have been searching for fugitive Marokopa father Tom Phillips and his children. RNZ's crime correspondent, Sam Sherwood has been following events.