Members of the Indian community in south Auckland are holding a crisis meeting with south Auckland police on Tuesday in the wake of the fatal robbery at a liquor store in Manurewa.
Navtej Singh, 30, the store's owner, was shot in the chest during the robbery on Saturday and died on Monday in hospital.
The three robbers and a getaway driver are still being sought by
police, although detectives believe someone must recognise them
from the security camera video.
The shooting has shocked the community and Manurewa shopkeepers say
they feel like targets for robbers.
Twenty five detectives are working on the case.
They want to speak to a man who stole from the liquor store
moments after its owner was shot.
As Singh lay fatally injured on the floor, a man walked in and
stole a box of alcopops.
Police also want to speak to four young women who entered the shop
after the shooting and were seen leaving in a blue sedan. Police
say the girls were dressed for a night out.
And police believe there are people who know the robbers involved and they're urging them to come forward.
Detective inspector Jim Gallagher says members of the public and those close to the offenders will recognise them immediately when they see the CCTV footage.
He says by now these people will know exactly what they have done because after they left the shop they sped off and probably returned to an address to celebrate what they had achieved.
The police are also defending their handling of the fatal
shooting following criticism the victim didn't get medical
treatment soon enough.
Ambulance staff at the scene were held back by police making sure
the gunmen had left the scene and it took more than half an hour
for ambulance staff to reach the victim.
Police say they could not have let paramedics in any earlier.
Meanwhile, one of New Zealand's leading forensic psychiatrists
has analysed the security footage.
Dr Sandy Simpson, Director of Auckland's Mason Clinic, says these
type of offences are usually fuelled by drugs, particularly pure
methamphetamine.
