Rewa Ariki Bryson

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Rewa Ariki Bryson

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Birthplace: Dunedin, Otago, South Island, New Zealand
Death: November 13, 1990 (11)
Aramoana, Otago, South Island, New Zealand (Aramoana Massacre - housefire)
Place of Burial: [cremated]
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Daughter of Private and Private

Find A Grave ID: 197909653
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About Rewa Ariki Bryson

The massacre began on 13 November at 7:30 p.m. when Gray confronted neighbour Garry Holden about one of Holden's dogs wandering onto his property. After the confrontation, Gray went into his house, retrieved a Norinco 84S semi-automatic rifle, walked outside and shot Holden multiple times in his chest, before walking over to him and shooting him fatally through the head. Nearby were three young girls: Holden's two daughters, Chiquita and Jasmine, and his girlfriend Julie Ann Bryson's adopted daughter, Rewa. The girls ran into Holden's house to hide as Gray walked onto Holden's property. He quickly found Chiquita and shot her in the chest and arm with a Squires and Bingham Model 16 .22-calibre semi-automatic sporting rifle, the bullet lodging in her abdomen. Shortly after shooting her, Gray found the other two girls and killed them. Chiquita, who managed to escape by running out of the back door, fled past her father's body to Bryson's nearby house, while Gray set the Holden house on fire. Bryson, realising that Rewa and Jasmine were still in the Holden house, drove her van there with Chiquita in an attempt to save the girls. Gray shot at the van as it passed the house, which was by then ablaze. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramoana_massacre

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Rewa Ariki Bryson's Timeline

1979
August 7, 1979
Dunedin, Otago, South Island, New Zealand
1990
November 13, 1990
Age 11
Aramoana, Otago, South Island, New Zealand
November 13, 1990
Age 11
[cremated]