Two stabbed at Kāinga Ora complex Te Matawai in central Auckland, man arrested

Two people have been injured at a Kāinga Ora housing complex, with a resident saying he heard someone yelling ‘I’ve been stabbed, call the police’.

The male and female victims were taken to hospital with moderate to serious injuries after emergency services were called to an apartment building on Greys Avenue in central Auckland about 10.35pm last night, police said.

A 34-year-old man was arrested at the scene without incident, they said.

“Police are investigating the full circumstances of what happened.”

Angus Jowitt, who lives at Kāinga Ora’s Te Mātāwai supported living development, said he heard people “running around and screaming” and someone yelling “I’ve been stabbed, call the police” just before emergency services were called.

It wasn’t uncommon to have a disturbance in Greys Ave “at this part of the week”, Jowitt told RNZ.

“However, this one seemed to me to be particularly intense, so I stopped what I was doing and went out and had a look on the balcony.”

“There was a couple of people kind of running around and screaming. You could clearly hear someone yelling ‘I’ve been stabbed, I’ve been stabbed, call the police’.

“It seemed very, very drastic, so I went downstairs.”

Te Mātāwai was staffed 24/7 and Jowitt saw workers running outside with phones in their hands, RNZ reported.

His neighbour said they saw a person being stabbed on a balcony in one of the complex’s three buildings.

At least a dozen police officers and about four or five police cars, with an ambulance, then arrived, Jowitt told RNZ.

He didn’t know who the victims were.

“[It’s] quite a sad thing to happen in the neighbourhood.”