In a Wellington courtroom, a mother named Jillian Hana is asking the law to reckon with what she believes justice has so far refused to face: whether the 2023 fatal police shooting of her son Kaoss Price, and the decision not to prosecute the officer responsible, were defensible under New Zealand law and human rights obligations. The Crown holds that a lone officer, in darkness on a rural road, made a lawful split-second choice when he fired a fatal shot at close range. The High Court must now determine whether that choice — and the fifteen-month investigation that absolved it — met the standa
Crown defends police decision not to prosecute officer in Kaoss Price fatal shooting
Kaoss Price, 150-200m from police, was fatally shot in the chest at point-blank range while attempting to enter a vehicle; he died at the scene.