New Zealand Fugitive Father Killed by Police as Children Remain Missing
Police cars arrive at a roadblock where a police shootout occurred near the town of Piopio, in New Zealand's Waikato region on Sept. 8.
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A New Zealand father who had been hiding in remote bush with his three children for almost four years has been shot dead in a gunfight with police.
Tom Phillips was killed early Monday after he and one of his children broke into a supply store in Piopio, a small rural town in the Waikato region, police said. Fleeing at about 2.45 a.m. on a quad bike loaded with items, they ran over road spikes set by police, where the shoot-out began.