Tom Phillips was killed after robbing an agricultural supplies store with one of his children.
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 on Monday, law enforcement said.
The December 2021 disappearance of Tom Phillips and his children – now about nine, 10 and 11 – confounded investigators for years as they scoured the densely forested area where they believed the family was hiding.
