New Zealand dad who evaded authorities with his 3 kids for years is shot dead by police

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A New Zealand man who evaded authorities with his three children in remote countryside for nearly four years was shot and killed by a police officer Monday, law enforcement said. The December 2021 disappearance of Tom Phillips and his children — now about 9, 10 and 11 — confounded investigators for years as they scoured the densely forested area where they believed the family was hiding. The family was not believed to ever have traveled far from the isolated North Island rural settlement of Marokopa where they lived, but credible sightings of them were rare.