Police are treating the incident as a targeted attack.

Utai is reported to have undergone emergency surgery after suffering gunshot wounds to his chest and leg.

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18 Feb: A jury's heard chilling new details of a North Canterbury man's final moments, in the trial of the man accused of shooting him

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