NIGHTMARE ENDS
Man suspected of shooting officer found, killed by police
A sergeant with the Hawaii Police Department’s Special Response Team, who reportedly was injured in a shootout at South Point, is carried toward Hilo
Medical Center after being medevaced late Friday afternoon. HOLLYN JOHNSON/HAWAII TRIBUNE-HERALD
BY TIFFANY DEMASTERS
WEST HAWAII TODAY
tdemasters@westhawaiitoday.com
SOUTH
POINT — A
days-long,
islandwide manhunt
culminated
Friday in South
Point when the
Hawaii Police
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Department’s Special Response
Team engaged in a shootout
with Justin Waiki, the man
wanted in the shooting death
of Puna patrol officer Bronson
Kaliloa earlier this week.
According to Hawaii Police
officials, the shootout ended with
Waiki dead, a woman injured
and a sergeant with the Special
Response Team medevaced to
Hilo Medical Center with gunshot
wounds. As of Friday evening,
the sergeant was reported
to be in stable condition and
going into surgery.
Three people were taken into
custody at the scene on suspicion
of hindering prosecution.
“I know that our island
community and entire state
has been following this event,
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and we at the Hawaii Police
Department want to express
our thanks for the thoughts and
prayer,” said Police Chief Paul
Ferreira during a press conference
Friday night in Hilo, “along
with your hopes. We have been
able to bring this nightmare to
an end.”
Police have been following up
on tips of Waiki’s whereabouts
throughout the week. On
Friday, they received information
that the 33-year-old was
in the South Point area of Ka‘u.
When SRT and a special taskforce
arrived on scene, checks
were conducted of the area and
a checkpoint was established to
search vehicles coming in and
out of South Point Road.
Waiki
HOW TO DONATE TO
KALILOA FAMILY
HILO — Those wanting to donate to the
family of fallen Puna patrol Officer Bronson K.
Kaliloa can do so by dropping off or mailing
checks to the Pahoa police station.
Checks can be made out to Casey
Kaliloa, the officer’s wife.
The mailing address for the station is
15-2615 Keaau-Pahoa Hwy., Pahoa, HI 96778.
“Donations are already starting to come
in. We’ll make sure they get it,” Maj. Samuel
Jelsma, the Puna police commander, said.
West Hawaii Today and the Hawaii Tribune-
Herald on Friday announced they are
donating a combined $5,000 to the family.
“The loss of Officer Kaliloa is a tragedy,”
David Bock, editor and publisher of the
Tribune-Herald, said. “I encourage anyone
who is saddened by his death to help support
his ohana with a monetary contribution. Our
hearts and prayers go out to his family.”
Those wishing to donate online can visit
a GoFundMe page under the name “Kaliloa
‘Ohana.” It was set up for the family by Teleise
Scanlan, who Jelsma confirmed is the wife
of a fellow Puna patrol officer. The URL is:
www.gofundme.com/kaliloa-ohana.
As of Friday, the page had raised
more than $30,000 in two days.
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Eruption could run for years, HVO reports
ACTIVITY REMAINS FOCUSED AT FISSURE 8
BY TOM CALLIS
HAWAII TRIBUNE-HERALD
HILO — Geologists say the eruption
on Kilauea’s lower East Rift Zone most
likely will continue for months to years.
That’s a preliminary analysis contained
in a report the U.S. Geological Survey’s
Hawaiian Volcano Observatory recently
submitted to Hawaii County Civil
Defense.
The eruption, which started May 3 in
Leilani Estates, has far outpaced other
eruptions in the area in terms of volume
in the past couple hundred years, and is
producing an 8-mile-long lava channel
to the ocean at Ahalanui. More than 700
homes have been destroyed.
Geologists say the sustained withdrawal
of magma from Kilauea’s summit without
appreciable ground deformation on
the lower rift zone suggests the eruption
remains stable.
Fissure 8 continues to feed a river of lava Thursday in Leilani
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