Local police confirm the incident involved a single-shooter, who is now dead.

Authorities say the slain officer had a pregnant wife, and two children.

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08 Aug: Some common ground between the coroner and Police Association, as each slam the other over the death of Shargin Stephens

08 Aug: A South Auckland lifestyle farmer has been banned from running young cattle, after two of his animals had to be euthanised

08 Aug: Any belief that someone else may have been involved in the death of Christchurch man Nigel Bom, has been shut down by a coroner

08 Aug: The estranged husband of triple murderer Erin Patterson claims she tried to poison him on multiple occasions

08 Aug: A coronial inquest into the fatal shooting of Shargin Stephens, is being described as shambolic

08 Aug: A Christchurch man has been jailed for 18 months, and banned from fishing for three years, for poaching more than 14-hundred sea cucumbers

08 Aug: The man accused of murdering policewoman Senior Sergeant Lyn Fleming in the early hours of New Year's Day has been named

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