Images of the Ashburton rampage have been released. Russell John Tully walked into the Work and Income New Zealand offices in Ashburton on the morning of 1 September 2014 armed with a shotgun. He intended to shoot as many Work and Income staff as he could. He shot four female office workers. Peggy Noble was…
Update 18 June: Less than two weeks after this article was written central Hamilton was again sealed off, due to another bomb threat. A suspicious package was left at the ANZ bank on Ward Street West. On the same day, threats closed down the Work and Income Offices in Nelson. of Hamilton city centre was…
It’s been called New Zealand’s equivalent of the Sydney Siege, but the Ashburton shootings went largely un-noticed by the world’s media. Watch the news video here http://vimeo.com/104979145 On September 1st last year a 48 year old man walked into a government office and shot two workers to death and seriously injured a third. The deceased…
