Police have launched a homicide investigation after a person died in Ōtāhuhu, Auckland early Sunday morning.
Police were called to the incident on Beatty Street at about 2:15am.
"One person received critical injuries and died at the scene," Acting Detective Inspector Warrick Adkin of Counties Manukau CIB said in a statement.
"We are speaking to witnesses and conducting a scene examination today."
The NZ Herald has reported that gunshots and hysterical screaming were allegedly heard in the night.
Beatty Street remains cordoned off.