Auckland's sikh community has gathered at Manukau City Council to present a cheque to the widow of murdered liquor store owner Navtej Singh.
It has been two months since Singh was fatally shot in his South Auckland liquor store and the close-knit Sikh society has been working hard to present his widow with the cheque.
Singh's family is in the process of lodging a formal complaint about the time police took to let ambulance staff through to help him after he was shot during a robbery.
"Navtej was an integral part of our society," a society spokesman said, adding that the society would be there to help the family.
The Kiwi movie Apron's Strings - a film featuring an Indian sikh family in South Auckland - raised $13,000 for the family and another $47,000 was raised by the community.
Manukau City councillor Arthur Annae said that although no amount of money could replace the family's loss it was good to see the community spirit is still strong.
And that community will lodge a complaint to the Police Conduct Authority in the next few days, questioning the time it took emergency services to reach Navtej.
Sandeep Verma made the initial calls to the ambulance on the night of the shooting and says he could hear ambulance sirens outside over half an hour before police let ambulance staff through the cordon to help.
Family spokesman Ajit Singh says Verma was at the site when the shooting took place and saw the victim in a pool of blood for about 25 -35 minutes.
"Nobody cared about him, nobody came and picked him up," Ajit
Singh said. "He [Verma] saw all that."
