Police seeking gang members

Press, 7 April 1979, Page 6

Police seeking gang members

PA Auckland. The Henderson police were; j last night still trying to tracej several members of the Head- ; ■ hunters gang in an inquiry . • related to an incident in | , • which a man was shot dead fiat Ranui yesterday. The man was found dead, »I from shotgun wounds to the ■ neck, by ambulance men in •a house about 8.45 p.m. on; . i Thursdav. He was I fl Joseph Timothy Arama, aged) 18, unemployed, who lived at the house. • I Detectives investigating the ■death initially worked on the theory that Mr Arama died I after shooting himself while i cleaning the gun. But the • death was treated as homillcide early yesterday morning II after a young man was taken

.To the Henderson Police I Station. He was later charged with : the murder of Mr Arama and ■ ‘taken to the Auckland Hos- ’ I pital where last night he was II recovering, under police I guard, from head injuries. Another man was also ar- , rested and charged with mur. ■ der and appeared in the Magistrate’s Court at Heniderson. He is Kauwia Rua, , aged 23, a foreman, who was j remanded in custody without plea for a psychiatric report. Henderson policemen were last night still looking for several members of the Headhunters gang, to which Mr Arama belonged. A senior officer said the people sought were wanted for questioning over matters subsequent to the shooting.