Life in Auckland's CBD is slowly getting back to normal but a scene examination is still underway at the site of Thursday morning's shooting.
Police have released more details about their investigation, and say a priority is the formal identification of the two victims in their 40s, who worked at the construction site alongside the dead offender.
On Friday night, Police recovered the bodies of two victims from the scene, and the shooter's body is expected to be recovered later on Friday night.
Matu Reid, 24, was on home detention for domestic violence charges and was given dispensation to work on the site.
There are unconfirmed reports Reid was sacked the day before the shootings, though Police Commissioner Andrew Coster said it's a tragic situation.
"The most recent conviction was for a serious assault in a family violence context. We know that he had potentially some mental health issues and issues with alcohol," he said.
"So unfortunately that is not altogether too dissimilar from a lot of cases that we come across every week."
The sister of the woman Reid assaulted contacted Newshub to say "he should've been put away".
The sister alleged Reid "also tried to burn my parent's house down".
"He stayed with my mum and dad for nearly eight months and he was shown nothing but love and kindness," she said.
"If he was inside (prison) these people would be alive."
"Family harm is widespread in New Zealand. It's a generational problem and there's lots of quite serious family harm," said Cmmr Coster.
"Most of those people don't go on to hurt innocent members of the public, however, in this case clearly, that's what's occurred."
Ten people were injured. Seven with gunshot wounds were taken to hospital and dozens of paramedics were involved in the response led by Andy Everiss.
"We are specialists in chaos, like we are prepared for chaos. It's not something we like to be prepared for but we are prepared for it and we're very good at it."
Some medical staff were provided with tactical vests, they even had to be prepared to go inside the building with police.
The restaurants on the lower floors of the building are now open and there are people inside. The cordon has virtually disappeared, just one around the command unit that police are using.
The FIFA fan festival zone at the Cloud opened on Friday and organisers maintain it was the right call to keep it closed on Thursday.
"A shocking and saddening situation for the city as well as the families involved and we worked closely with the Police and the Mayor's office, and ultimately with Ngāti Whātua around the cultural significance and it was ultimately the right decision to delay until today," said Auckland Unlimited's Richard Clarke.
A decision US fans agreed with.
"I wasn't disappointed because I understood," said one fan.
"I mean of course but they have to do what they have to do, but we were pretty busy yesterday getting ready for the New Zealand game so we're happy to make it today," said another.
The tournament itself provided some much-needed joy after a day of horror.
