New Zealand

Sixth person charged over Karori shooting

11:11 am on 19 February 2021

A sixth person has been charged over the fatal shooting of a man in the Wellington suburb of Karori last year.

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Rau Tongia was killed on Percy Dyett Drive in the early hours of 20 December last year.

Shayde Weston, who is 24, has been charged with murder, along with a 35-year-old woman who has name suppression.

Police have now charged a 47-year-old woman with being a party to murder and she is due to appear in the Wellington District Court today.

Three other people have also been charged in relation to the shooting.