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Witness speaks
at preliminary
hearing for
alleged shooter
Man faces multiple charges
in May 29 Leilani incident
A 36-year-old Pahoa man who faced down
the barrel of a handgun that fired at least two
gunshots in lava-ravaged Leilani Estates on
May 29 testified
“afraid for his
life” during
the incident.
Edwards told
Hilo District
Judge Harry
Freitas he saw
61-year-old John
William “Bill”
Hubbard pull a
silver revolver
out of his pocket,
“point it at
my head …
raise it into the
air and fire it.”
testimony came
Thursday, the
second day of
a preliminary
hearing to determine if there is probable
cause to try Hubbard for first-degree robbery,
reckless endangering, use of a firearm in
the commission of a separate felony, illegally
carrying a handgun, having no permit to
acquire a firearm and no firearm registration,
two counts of reckless endangering and five
counts of first-degree terroristic threatening.
Edwards said Hubbard, the man police
say was the shooter in a Facebook video that
went viral, drove quickly on Kahukai Street
toward the intersection of Makamae Street
in his white pickup truck, got out and told
everyone in the vicinity to identify themselves
and to leave. He said Hubbard struck
him twice before pointing the revolver and
that he blocked both strikes with his arms.
“I couldn’t actually believe what was
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Monday, June 11, 2018
With world watching,
high-stakes meeting
to begin Tuesday
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KILAUEA ERUPTION
Photos: HOLLYN JOHNSON/Tribune-Herald
Tents and tarps form rows of temporary homes for evacuees in the parking lot Thursday at the Pahoa
Community Center shelter.
Shelter fatigue
Stacy Welch has been
staying at the emergency
shelter in Pahoa
for more than
a month.
Forced out
of her Leilani
Estates home
by the eruption
activity, she
— and many
others — don’t know when
they’ll be able to leave.
Welch, her daughter and
hanai daughter, both 19,
and pets evacuated from
their home, located near
fissures 9 and 24, with Leilani Estates evacuee Lesa Callahan tears up while talking about the
eruption Thursday. She setup camp in a dugout of a baseball field at the
shelter at Pahoa Community Center.
Final preparations underway for Trump-Kim summit
SINGAPORE — In their final
hours of calm, President Donald
Trump and North Korea’s Kim
Jong Un huddled with advisers
in luxury Singapore hotels less
than half a mile apart, readying
for a nuclear summit that could
define the fate of millions, and
their own political futures.
Both sides spent today
finalizing preparations
for the unprecedented
summit,
which was to kick
off at 9 a.m. Tuesday
with a handshake
between Trump and
Kim, an image sure
to be devoured around the world.
Trump and Kim planned to meet
one on one, joined only by translators,
for up to two hours before
admitting their respective advisers,
a U.S. official said. The official
was not authorized to speak
publicly about internal deliberations
and insisted on anonymity.
The summit will be the first
between a North Korean leader
and a sitting American president.
In Singapore, the island citystate
playing host to the summit,
the sense of anticipation was
palpable, with people lining spotless
streets waving cell phones
as Trump headed to meet with
Singapore’s prime minister.
U.S. and North Korean
officials negotiated at the
Ritz Carlton today ahead
of the sit-down aimed at
resolving a standoff over
Pyongyang’s nuclear arsenal.
Trump tweeted Monday morning:
“Great to be in Singapore,
excitement in the air!”
Associated Press
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, is greeted
by Singapore Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr. Vivian
Balakrishnan on Sunday in Singapore.
Stress takes toll
on lava evacuees
By JOHN BURNETT
Hawaii Tribune-Herald
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Ethan Edwards turns to ask
a question of Judge Harry
Freitas Thursday in Hilo
District Court.
See HEARING Page A7
By STEPHANIE SALMONS
Hawaii Tribune-Herald
See SHELTER Page A8
By ZEKE MILLER, CATHERINE
LUCEY and JOSH LEDERMAN
Associated Press
TRUMP
See SUMMIT Page A7
UH mulls
next TV
move for
football
SPORTS, B1
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