How a police shooting unfolded
(WorldNews New Zealand)

An inquiry has found a Nelson policeman was justified in shooting a wanted man. Jessica Long reports on the tense standoff on a quiet Motueka street. `I knew then this could be the end. It was the way he looked at me and the cuddle. I knew he was prepared to die.` These were the words of a friend of Ford Hurunui, armed with a pump action shotgun, near the end of a tense standoff with police on a dead end Motueka street. The friend was holding a small child as he emerged from his house on Wharepapa Grove where Hurinui and a friend had abandoned their car after a short police pursuit. Hand over the gun, the friend said. He had kids at home and didn`t want them to be unsafe. Hurinui told him it...