He would try to do something and he’d fail at it and he’d get angry really fast.” They said after he attacked her family member they had no more dealings with him.Īnother relative, the victim’s nephew, said Reid should have received jail time for trying to burn down their house and assaulting his aunt. He should have never been let out as far as I’m concerned.” “When I read about it yesterday, it was just so sad to know that, that he was let out. The family member said the victim “wouldn’t trust people again” after what he did to her. However, while there, Reid violently assaulted a female family member and at the time of yesterday’s shooting was serving a sentence of five months’ home detention after he admitted charges of impeding breathing, injuring with intent to injure, wilful damage and male assaults female over the offending.

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Through the years they said they had had homestays living in their home and they liked to give others a second chance. “She was asked to take him in, through a friend of hers who knew him, and he’d just come out of jail.”

“She was the type of person who would help anybody that was in trouble. They said the victim and Reid were “not an item” and she was only helping him because he had nowhere to live. Matu Reid died in a shoot-out with police after killing two construction workers in Auckland's CBD.

The relative said he “never” accepted responsibility for his actions, but was only violent on that one occasion. Reid died in a lift shaft after shooting several civilians and at least one police officer at a high-rise construction site in downtown Auckland on Thursday morning. ”We gave him a home, all the love a family does, he was brought into the family as a family person and this is what happened.” Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald PodcastĪ relative of the woman who Auckland gunman Matu Reid assaulted in 2021 said they always told family members they feared he would never be rehabilitated.Wellington Mornings with Nick Mills Podcast.The Resident Builder Podcast with Peter Wolfkamp.Saturday Morning with Jack Tame Podcast.Sportstalk with D'Arcy Waldegrave Podcast.Simon Barnett & James Daniels Afternoons Podcast.

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