{"id":73992,"date":"2025-09-08T13:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T04:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/sep\/08\/tom-phillips-shooting-live-updates-nz-police-search-for-children-of-fugitive-father-shot-new-zealand-police-latest-updates"},"modified":"2025-09-08T15:17:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T06:17:21","slug":"tom-phillips-shooting-nz-police-race-to-find-children-before-nightfall-after-fugitive-father-shot-dead-by-police-latest-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73992","title":{"rendered":"Fugitive father shot dead by police \u2013 as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This blog is now closed. Our full report is here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/08\/tom-phillips-new-zealand-fugitive-father-shot-dead-nz-police\">Tom Phillips shot dead after attempted burglary, NZ police confirm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The mayor of Waitomo, <strong>John Robertson<\/strong>, told the Guardian this morning\u2019s events were the worst possible outcome for the community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m shattered, to be honest, and there will be many in the community that are devastated that this was the outcome after three and a half, four years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s just devastating news. Really the worst outcome we could have expected.<\/p>\n<p>No day that goes by that I don\u2019t think about all four of them.<\/p>\n<p>It hurts every time I see photos of the children and of you, and see some of your stuff that is still here, thinking what could have been if you had not gone away.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/sep\/08\/tom-phillips-shooting-live-updates-nz-police-search-for-children-of-fugitive-father-shot-new-zealand-police-latest-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog is now closed. Our full report is here: Tom Phillips shot dead after attempted burglary, NZ police confirmThe mayor of Waitomo, John Robertson, told the Guardian this morning\u2019s events were the worst possible outcome for the community.\u201cI\u2019m sha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3946,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3946"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73992"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74035,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73992\/revisions\/74035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}