Person stabbed at Kainga Ora housing apartments on Auckland’s Greys Ave

By RNZ

A person was reportedly stabbed at a Kainga Ora housing complex in central Auckland last night.

A police incident log showed emergency services were called to a “grievous assault” on Greys Ave at 10.45pm.

A resident of Kainga Ora’s Te Mātāwai supported living development, Angus Jowitt, said 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,” he 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 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.

RNZ has approached Police and Kainga Ora for comment.