A man wanted in connection to the double homicide in McLaren Falls this week was shot dead after firing at least 15 times at police. Photo: Alan GibsonThe new mother found dead in a Tauranga home on Friday was the partner of the man killed by police who, along with a 25-year-old man arrested in Christchurch last week, was a suspect in the McLaren Falls double homicide. He was a suspect in the double murder of two men two days earlier at McLaren Falls. On Saturday, police district commander, Superintendent Andy McGregor, said the Brookfield woman's death was a "domestic incident" that was "linked" to the McLaren Falls double homicide. Police at the Lynwood Pl property in the Tauranga suburb of Brookfield on February 16, the day after a woman was discovered dead there.

Source: Otago Daily Times February 16, 2020 20:17 UTC