Overview

• Officers responding to an armed break-in at a rural supplies store in Piopio pursued suspects on a quadbike before Phillips shot a police officer in the head.
• The wounded officer was airlifted to hospital for emergency surgery and remains in critical condition, according to Deputy Police Commissioner Jill Rogers.
• Phillips was fatally shot at the scene after additional officers arrived, with images showing bullet-riddled patrol cars and a rifle recovered nearby.
• One child with Phillips was unharmed and taken into care, and later the other two children were located alive at a remote campsite and placed under protective supervision.
• Police recovered multiple firearms and opened inquiries into the confrontation, capping nearly four years since Phillips fled a custody dispute and was linked to robberies, violence and recent thefts caught on CCTV.