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New Zealand fugitive Tom Phillips killed by police, children found safe

Tom Phillips had been evading authorities for nearly four years with his three children. He was killed in a shoot-out with police officers, and his children found alive.

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00:00A wanted criminal on the run with his three children in New Zealand for nearly four years
00:07was shot and killed in a confrontation with police on Monday, according to law enforcement.
00:13Tom Phillips and his children had gone missing in December 2021,
00:17disappearing into the remote countryside as investigators scoured the densely forested
00:22area where they believed the four of them were hiding. One child was with Phillips at the time
00:27of the confrontation and the other two were found in the forest hours after the shootout.
00:33We've come across them in the area that we were identified as being a probable location in which
00:38we could find them and we've had communication with them and we've safely engaged with them
00:45and they're now with our police officers. A police officer was shot in the head and
00:51critically injured and was undergoing surgery at a hospital. The case has fascinated New Zealanders
00:57for years, with police making regular unsuccessful appeals for information.
01:03Phillips did not have legal custody rights for his children,
01:06and authorities said they had not had access to formal education or healthcare since their disappearance.
01:12Phillips did not have legal custody due after the fact that women did not continue to do
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