A coroner has reserved his findings on the death of a courier driver shot during a police pursuit of a gunman last year.
Halatau Naitoko, 17, was fatally shot on January 23 on Auckland's northwestern motorway by armed police chasing Stephen Hohepa McDonald, who was on a crime rampage.
The inquest was first convened in March but was reconvened by Coroner Gordon Matenga yesterday.
Evidence has mainly centred on a critical examination by former police superintendent Neville Matthews, who said police should have abandoned their pursuit of McDonald about 10 minutes before Mr Naitoko was killed as police were not controlling him and the risk to the public outweighed the need to immediately apprehend him.
Three subsequent police witnesses took a different view, saying the risk of having an offender who had fired a gun several times already go free in the public was too great to give the pursuit up.