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three children. He killed the two boys, Leo Wilson and Dion Percy. The boys' sister, Stacey, was critically injured by a bullet to her abdomen, but survived. Ross Percy, the children's father, who had been driving them home after a day fishing when they saw the fire, was fatally shot in the head. Next, Aleki Tali was killed. Gray then entered the home of Tim
Jamieson, killing him and another elderly local, former
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magazine. In
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Chalmers Fire Brigade attended and doused surrounding vegetation to prevent the fire spreading; around fifty residents watched it burn and reportedly laughed mockingly as it did so. Gray's relatives asked that any investigation of arson
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Chiquita, who managed to escape by running out of the back door, fled past her father's body to Bryson's nearby house, while Gray set the Holden house on fire. Bryson, realising that Rewa and
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assault rifle, and he owned three other semi-automatic firearms. Four of the dead victims and one of the injured were proven forensically to have been shot with the Norinco rifle, and another of the injured had been shot with Gray's .22 cal Squires Bingham rifle. Fragments recovered from other
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shed at the rear. The group spotted Gray briefly at a window, and a battle ensued. Police put a stun grenade through a window, but it bounced off a mattress that Gray had placed as a barricade and landed back near police. Police fired
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Some Christchurch members of the ATS moved into Aramoana at about 6:00 a.m. on 14 November. The ATS went first to Gray's house, passing bodies on the street. After clearing neighboring houses, they put a
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1954:"Aramoana massacre cop and young survivor wed - 27 years on"
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1250:from the original on 17 October 2008
962:The massacre was an inspiration for
888:adding citations to reliable sources
838:Aramoana: Twenty-two hours of terror
483:semi-automatic rifle, a .22-calibre
2298:November 1990 events in New Zealand
2253:20th-century mass murder in Oceania
2248:1990s mass shootings in New Zealand
1117:Brockell, Gillian (15 March 2019).
938:Toronto International Film Festival
588:, 41, Port Chalmers police officer;
575:Simon Christopher "Chris" Cole, 62;
1860:McNeilly, Hamish (11 April 2018).
1811:from the original on 20 March 2019
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532:from 1971 to 1973, where he was a
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1625:Matthews, Philip (October 2006).
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1952:Vance, Andrea (26 August 2018).
1891:McNeilly, Hamish (11 May 2018).
1699:Mallon, Jillian (1 March 2010),
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1002:List of massacres in New Zealand
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842:Journey to Aramoana â His Story
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2130:Journey to Aramoana: His story
2036:"In cold blood | WorldCat.org"
1849:– via Otago Daily Times.
1629:. The Listener. Archived from
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1191:. 16 November 1990. p. 2.
1154:Jones, Lea (5 November 2005).
1143:. 15 November 1990. p. 1.
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1026:"Grim history, missed chance?"
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232:Christchurch mosque shootings
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1801:"Memories of a brave woman"
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1837:. Auckland. 4 March 2018.
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2086:Bensemann, Paul (1991).
1734:Academy Press 1995 p.317
1627:"The spirit of Aramoana"
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2185:"The Aramoana Massacre"
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1355:, 19 December 1990.
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834:Tragedy at Aramoana
1732:To Guard My People
1587:To Guard My People
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1213:The London Gazette
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