Person stabbed at central Auckland Kainga Ora complex

A 34-year-old man has been arrested after two people were stabbed in central Auckland.

Emergency services were called to an apartment building on Greys Avenue just after 10:30pm on Friday, where a man and a woman were found with stab wounds.

Both were taken to hospital with moderate to serious injuries, police said on Saturday.

The man was arrested at the scene.

A resident at a Kāinga Ora housing complex, Angus Jowitt, told RNZ he heard a commotion in the complex about five minutes earlier.

“It’s not uncommon to have a disturbance in Greys Ave at this part of the week, Friday night, 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,” Jowitt said.

“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.”

Jowitt said the Te Mātāwai supported living development complex was staffed 24-7 and he saw workers running outside with phones in hand.

He said his neighbours reported seeing a man stabbing another person on a balcony in one of the complex’s three buildings.

At least a dozen police officers and about four or five police cars, along with an ambulance, attended the scene, Jowitt said.

“[It’s] quite a sad thing to happen in the neighbourhood. I don’t know who it was, but I’m sure we’ll hear in the coming days,” he said.

Police said a man is scheduled to appear in Auckland District Court on Saturday, charged with two counts of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.

RNZ has approached Kāinga Ora for comment.

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