Police will continue today try to establish the motive for the execution-style shooting of a man in Papatoetoe, South Auckland, early yesterday.
The Maori man, 26, was shot three times at his home while walking to his front door.
The man's pregnant partner was home at the time of the shooting, and found him collapsed, trying to breathe in spite of wounds to the head and torso.
Detective Inspector John Tims, crime manager for Counties Manukau Police, said the attack was not a random shooting.
"This looks like a planned event; there will be a reason for it and that is what we will work to establish," he said.
The man, a father of one child with his partner carrying their second child, was returning home after being out, Mr Tims said.
The gunman was described as a Maori man aged about 30, 170cm tall and of medium to solid build with short hair. He drove off in a black sportscar.
The homicide investigation team was conducting scene examinations and canvassing the neighbourhood.
Mr Tims said two search warrants had been executed with the assistance of armed offenders personnel.
The death was one of a series of violent incidents around Auckland over the weekend.
Shortly after the South Auckland shooting, Papakura police, called to men fighting near netball courts on Smith Avenue, found a local man, 19, unconscious and on the ground with serious head injuries.
He was taken to Middlemore Hospital where his condition was described as critical.
Mr Tims said residents and other people who may have heard or seen the attack or things relevant to it were asked to contact police.
In other incidents during the weekend: a Polynesian teenager, was shot in the leg in Mangere at 9.30pm on Saturday "in what appears to be a drive-by shooting". Now in Middlemore Hospital, the victim was walking on Windrush Close when shot.
Mr Tims said police had been told his injuries and condition were not life-threatening.
"With the information we currently have, it appears this shooting is not random" he said.
Assistant Commissioner Steve Shortland said the string of violence was part of a violent last weekend of the winter: the northern communications centre received over 1100 calls between 10pm on Saturday night and 7am on Sunday morning.
Counties Manukau bore the brunt of the workload with police responding to a large number of incidents. That district's late shift, which normally finishes at 2am on Sunday morning, had 11 incident cars, two crime cars, a youth action team and eight supervisors working -- close to 40 police officers.
The overlapping night shift of about 35 staff who began work at 10pm meant there were about 70 police officers responding to calls.
Earlier in the weekend, Counties Manukau, with the help of the traffic alcohol group, ran a drink-drive blitz deploying over 90 staff on Friday and Saturday nights between 10pm and 5am. Of the 9429 drivers and breath-tested, 220, or 2.3 percent, tested positive.
Mr Shortland said that from 10pm Saturday night until at least 2am Sunday morning, there were 165 police working in the district.
