Shot youth ignored
PA Auckland Several people ignored the cries of a youth, aged 15, yesterday as he staggered along a North Shore street bleeding from bullet and knife wounds.
The injured youth, whom the police declined to name, was undergoing surgery last evening for three bullet wounds to the head and body and an apparent knife wound to the neck.
The head of the Takapuna
C. 1.8., Detective Senior-Ser-geant T. O. Tozer, said that detectives had gone to a house in Glenfield where they found two .22 rifles and a knife. A youth, aged 15, found at the house was being interviewed. Detective Senior-Sergeant Tozer said that the police were alarmed that people had seen the injured youth and had heard him calling for help yet had taken no action.
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Press, 14 December 1983, Page 8
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