Police outside Wellington Hospital after reports of a firearm discharged on 1 May. Photo: RNZ / John Gerritsen
Police have issued a warrant to arrest a 21-year-old man over his involvement in an incident that saw armed police descend on Wellington Hospital last week.
Kalais Grant - who is facing charges of possessing a knife and threatening violence during an altercation where another man discharged a firearm near the hospital entrance on 1 May - failed to appear in Wellington District Court this morning.
Grant, who comes from Gisborne, was arrested on Thursday and bailed to appear in court this morning.
Police believed he may have presented a knife during a confrontation outside a motel on Riddiford St, which escalated outside the hospital entrance where the gun was fired.
A 22-year-old man was arrested from an address in Hāwera late last week and a shotgun was recovered by police.