Update: 5:11PM AUCKLAND: A TEAM of 17 Police investigators is investigating two separate incidents on Tripoli Road, Panmure.
In the early hours of Saturday, Police reported a car struck a group of people.
Later that day, before midnight, three people were attacked at a house.
Detective Inspector Aaron Pascoe said their investigators were making enquiries and were confident they would identify the driver of the vehicle from Saturday morning.
“We are also following strong lines of enquiry in relation to those responsible for last night’s attack. We will continue to have increased patrols in the Glen Innes and Panmure areas,” Mr Pascoe said.
“We don’t want to see anybody else hurt, and we’re asking those involved to leave it up to Police to hold those responsible to account.
“We are also asking for the families of those involved to make sure there is no further violence.”
Mr Pascoe said there were serious offending in both cases where weapons had been used and the outcome could have been much worse.
As part of Police enquiries into those two incidents, Police discovered that one of the people stabbed last night – the person who sustained the most serious injuries in last night’s incident – was someone who had provided valuable assistance to the person critically injured early on Saturday.
“When the car struck people in the early hours of Saturday, this person had made the choice to stay with the injured man until the ambulance arrived, and even assisted in lifting the car off him.
“This just goes to show how things can go spectacularly wrong when people attempt to take the law into their own hands to seek retribution in this way.”
He said two people continued to assist Police with enquiries following last night’s incident.
“We are confident that none of the victims that were targeted last night were responsible for driving the vehicle into our victims in the early hours of Saturday.”
As a result of both incidents, a total of five people were hospitalised.
The three people injured in last night’s attack have all been discharged from hospital, Police said.
Two people from the incident involving the car remain in hospital.
