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A New Zealand father who took his children without legal custody and lived in the woods for nearly four years was shot and killed during a shootout with police on Monday, Sept. 8

Tom Phillips, the father, had vanished with his three young children in December of 2021, leading the kids' mother to call police

The manhunt ended as Phillips was confronted by police after breaking into a local store, something he had done multiple times while gathering resources for the remote woodland camp where he allegedly held his kids captive

For nearly four years, Tom Phillips and his three children were seldom spotted after first disappearing in December 2021 and allegedly living off the grid in a heavily wooded area on the outskirts of their rural New Zealand settlement.

But every on

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