A 33-year-old Christchurch man was shot twice in the lower body after a shootout with police on Tuesday evening. A gunman crouched behind a car and opened fire at police officers, hitting a police car multiple times before he was shot twice. The car failed to stop, and officers saw what they believed to be shots fired from the vehicle, towards police." READ MORE: Gunman wounded after shootout with policeJOSEPH JOHNSON/STUFF Inside the car that a man used to flee from police before shooting at them on Tuesday. 1 NEWS "Shrapnel flew past" according to a Christchurch man who recounted his neighbour’s story to 1 NEWS.

Source: Stuff February 26, 2019 18:27 UTC