A woman told police that Anthony F. Pereira II, an Oahu Community Correctional Center sergeant, had held her captive for three days, was high on drugs and had not slept for three days when he shot his 66-year-old mother in his Maili home Friday.
An Oahu grand jury returned an indictment Wednesday charging Pereira, 44, with second-degree murder, kidnapping, terroristic threatening, using a firearm to commit the crimes and drug possession.
Pereira remains in custody at Halawa Correctional Facility. Circuit Judge Richard Perkins confirmed his bail Wednesday at $1 million.
Deputy Prosecutor Scott Spallina told Perkins that Pereira met the 48-year-old woman on June 8 and kept her in his home until Friday, when Pereira’s mother stopped by. When Barbara Pereira indicated she wanted to leave, Pereira said no and shot her in the thigh, Spallina said.
Pereira refused pleas to have his mother taken to a hospital and kept her in the home bleeding for several hours, Spallina said. During that time he fired a shot at the other woman’s head and told her, “I’ll finish (his mother) off … cut her up. We’ll make soup out of her. It’ll taste good,” Spallina said.
He said Pereira eventually did agree to allow his mother to be taken a hospital. That’s when the woman said she grabbed the keys to a pickup truck and fled, showing up at the Waianae Police Station, where she said she told officers, “I was held at the house by Maili Beach. He shot her and he’s coming after me.”
Spallina said neighbors called police after they heard the truck leave the area, then gunshots.
Police found Barbara Pereira’s lifeless body in
the home.
Spallina said she had been shot in one thigh, the upper part of one of her arms, and twice in the head near an eye.
Police say when a responding officer showed up at the home, Anthony Pereira was holding an AR-15 assault rifle. They said they also recovered a Glock semi-automatic pistol and a .357-caliber revolver.
The state Department of Public Safety says Pereira had worked for the department since August 2002. He is a training sergeant at OCCC but has been on unpaid leave since April 10, when he stopped showing up for work.
