Two men injured in officer-involved shooting in Mililani
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Prosecutor Keith Kaneshiro was at the scene of the shooting.
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The Honolulu Police Department closed Makaimoimo St. from Meheula Pkwy to the entrance of Mililani Town Center due to an investigation involving a stolen F150 truck which rammed into a cop car on Thursday afternoon at around 1:15 p.m. Two men were shot and were taken to the hospital in serious condition.
CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / CRUSSELL@STARADVERTISER.COM
The Honolulu Police Department closed Makaimoimo St. from Meheula Pkwy to the entrance of Mililani Town Center due to an investigation involving a stolen F150 truck which rammed into a cop car on Thursday afternoon at around 1:15 p.m. Two men were shot and were taken to the hospital in serious condition.
CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / CRUSSELL@STARADVERTISER.COM
The Honolulu Police Department closed Makaimoimo St. from Meheula Pkwy to the entrance of Mililani Town Center due to an investigation involving a stolen F150 truck which rammed into a cop car on Thursday afternoon at around 1:15 p.m. Two men were shot and were taken to the hospital in serious condition.
CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / CRUSSELL@STARADVERTISER.COM
The Honolulu Police Department closed Makaimoimo St. from Meheula Pkwy to the entrance of Mililani Town Center due to an investigation involving a stolen F150 truck which rammed into a cop car on Thursday afternoon at around 1:15 p.m. Two men were shot and were taken to the hospital in serious condition.
CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / CRUSSELL@STARADVERTISER.COM
The Honolulu Police Department closed Makaimoimo St. from Meheula Pkwy to the entrance of Mililani Town Center due to an investigation involving a stolen F150 truck which rammed into a cop car on Thursday afternoon at around 1:15 p.m. Two men were shot and were taken to the hospital in serious condition.
CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / CRUSSELL@STARADVERTISER.COM
The Honolulu Police Department closed Makaimoimo St. from Meheula Pkwy to the entrance of Mililani Town Center due to an investigation involving a stolen F150 truck which rammed into a cop car on Thursday afternoon at around 1:15 p.m. Two men were shot and were taken to the hospital in serious condition.
CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / CRUSSELL@STARADVERTISER.COM
The Honolulu Police Department closed Makaimoimo St. from Meheula Pkwy to the entrance of Mililani Town Center due to an investigation involving a stolen F150 truck which rammed into a cop car on Thursday afternoon at around 1:15 p.m. Two men were shot and were taken to the hospital in serious condition.
JAYNA OMAYE / JOMAYE@STARADVERTISER.COM
Mililani High School went into lockdown for about half an hour as police converged on the Burger King across the street from campus.
JAYNA OMAYE / JOMAYE@STARADVERTISER.COM
Mililani High School went into lockdown for about half an hour as police converged on the Burger King across the street from campus.
JAYNA OMAYE / JOMAYE@STARADVERTISER.COM
Mililani High School went into lockdown for about half an hour as police converged on the Burger King across the street from campus.
Two men were taken to the hospital with gunshot wounds in a police-involved shooting near Mililani Town Center this afternoon.
Honolulu police said officers responded at 1:15 p.m. to a report of a stolen vehicle at the Mililani Burger King.
The driver of a Ford F-150 pickup truck allegedly rammed into a police subsidized vehicle, and “continued forward nearly striking an officer,” a written statement from an HPD spokeswoman said.
The officer responded by shooting and hitting the driver and the front passenger.
A 30-year-old man sustained a gunshot wound to the upper right back, while a 31-year old man had apparent gunshot wounds to the hip and right elbow, according to city Emergency Medical Services personnel. Both were taken to a hospital in serious condition.
No one else was injured, including a third person in the vehicle.
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Kinji Martin said he had just left Times Supermarket when he saw police cars parked in front of Burger King. Martin, who lives in Mililani Mauka and is a Mililani High graduate, said he parked in the back of Burger King and told his wife to stay in the car.
Martin, a student at the University of Hawaii at West Oahu, said he saw blood on a parked truck and on the street.
“It just looked really graphic,” said Martin, 29. “I guess I wasn’t as scared but my wife was terrified. I’ve never seen any event comparable to this (in this community).”
Makaimoimo Street from Meheula Parkway to the entrance to the Mililani Town Center was shut down as police investigate.
Mililani High School went into lockdown for about half an hour as police converged on the Burger King across the street from campus.
“Lockdown started at 1:15 p.m. in response to a police incident that took place at the nearby Burger King,” said Lindsay Chambers, spokeswoman for the Department of Education. “It was lifted at 1:50 p.m.”
Travis Afuso, student body president at Mililani High, said he heard the lockdown announcement during his JROTC class around 1:15 p.m. Afuso, a junior, said teachers locked the doors and shut the windows.
He said he and his classmates crouched under the tables and did not hear any updates for about 10 minutes. Afuso said the school later announced that there was a police incident at Burger King.
“Initially I thought it was a shooter on campus. My mind was like, ‘oh my gosh what was going on,’” he said. “It was frightening.”
Afuso added that some students initially thought there was a lockdown drill. He said in his three years at the high school, there has never been a lockdown.
“This is very much an unusual event,” Afuso said. “This is quite a surprise. This is a very safe community.”
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Scary area!
Mililani is becoming a haven for crime and criminals.
Crimemapping.com says otherwise. But I’m happy that these two losers will be off the street for a little while.
Cops needs to go to the shooting range more often. Now we pay for the hospital bills, incarceration for these two low-life’s. “smh”
These two losers are now going to be on the Dole for life. First Hospital, court, prison, and then a life of disability due to the gunshot wounds to the shoulder of one and two major joints (hip & elbow) for the other one.
Just a shame that’s all.
Sorry “local” but you don’t know what you are talking about. Mililani has always been and continues to be one of the safest places on the island. Look up the statistics and you might learn something. It’s better to be silent and thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
Scary with bad traffic. Yikes.
agree…too many unhinged people there…
only serious condition? lucky crooks.
At least they didn’t get away like what usually happens with car thefts on the island. Hopefully Keith Kaneshiro doesn’t bungle this case too.
Back, hip and elbow? wow, how that happened if they were in the car? or did they get out and start shooting back at police? must have been a crazy and scary scene for the customers and workers in Burger King. omg…
The bullets can penetrate the doors.
Why can’t our police figure-out how to arrest an un-armed subject without shooting them? You say the car we bought you got smashed? Big deal. That’s why we have body shops. This has gotten out of hand.
With all your expertise and law enforcement knowlede you should volunteer to assist HPD’s training division!
I don’t think they knew if the suspects were armed or not, but by virtue of them ramming the police car, it was an attack that had to be stopped. How else would the police stop them, by standing in front of the truck? Here again is a sad case by commenters on police actions. If the police shoot, they are scrutinized. If they didn’t shoot and the suspects got out of the truck and started shooting (and maybe injuring or killing others), police would be blamed for not shooting to stop them. Lose-lose situation. I would not want to be a police officer today. Many thanks for those who are!
This is not the first time Police have shot unarmed criminals trying to flee. The story is ALWAYS the same – the driver drove right at the officer. Yea, right, more like he was trying to get away.
The last one was a drunk marine who was boxed in on all side with no way to escape on the Ala wai. He tried to get away too and police murdered him. Kealoha is training his people to kill anyone behind the wheel of a car if they don’t follow police orders. It’s just not right.
maybe crooks should know when to give up and obey police commands rather than risking their lives by trying to flee. although one less criminal means less victims so go ahead crooks, keep challenging the police. good job officer!
IRT saywhatyouthink: how many times is ALWAYS to you? Police stop and arrest many auto thieves in a day and/or week and never shoot them but because we have this story you now perceive it as they ALWAYS shoot. You might be correct but if 1 out of hundreds of Auto Theft arrest end up in a shooting then it can’t be ALWAYS.
I wish you were right that the police ALWAYS shoot at criminals trying to flee. If this were the case there would be a lot fewer criminals running around our streets.
Armed or not , get rid of such people.
They lucky they live in Hawaii. If it were on the mainland the cops would have pulled them out and shot them point blank. We have Aloha here, hello.
Hey Pea . Don’t want to get shot don’t resist the cops . Simple. We give the cops a job to do to try and keep punks under control. I think they got these two settled down. Now , if the judges will just follow suit and put them away for a good long while the cops might not have to shoot them again.
You want to live where there is no law enforcement ? Go to Brazil or Venezuela , or howabout the Middle East ?
If this was on the mainland the out come might be different.
No community is safe these days. Criminals look for any neighborhood to wreak havoc.
I completely concur with A_Reader’s comments. As for peanutgallery, its easy to be a Monday morning Q.B. making generaliztions but when your life is in danger, esp. in this case, when the two punks used the truck as a battering ram and as a weapon, then the officers were absolutely justified in shooting these two punks. Peanutgallery should go back and continue eating his peanuts which is about the size of his brain and intelligence. Nothing more and nothing less.
So… driving a stolen car is a capital crime in your book? Or was it the attempted escape that deserves a bullet? Don’t try to run from HPD in a car, they’ll kill you without a second thought.
Yup if they ram a police car, then try to run a cop over. Until the investigation is complete and based on what SA printed, looks good to me and most who posted a comment.
Good. If you run from HPD,I’m all for them to shoot the punks.
So is taking candy from a store a capital crime if you have a gun in your back pocket but don’t pull it out?
Depends
It is a crime having the gun job your back pocket in Hawaii , so , I would have to give the cop the benefit of the doubt.
And even then , if you do what an understandably nervous cop tells you to do you will be fine, sure hope you have a good reason for having the gun in your pocket when you gotta face the judge tho.
If the perpetrators use the car as a weapon to ram or strike an officer or another person then it constitutes deadly force and the law allows the cops to respond accordingly with deadly force which is usually firearms in order to stop or prevent this from happening…..
I guess the SA didn’t like my previous comment since they deleted it. They also changed the comment count to show the comment didn’t exist. I guess they only like the comments that are glad these criminals survived so the tax payers can pay to incarcerate them or the courts let them out to continue committing crimes.
I would delete that comment too.
Yup freedom of speech is ok if it is what you like , but anything else is questionable huh ?
I took bullet fire so that we can talk freely , and you ?
Yeah me too! I think that we all don’t have a rite to not be offended. Go ahead and talk, yell and or make signs, put funding in (art dept.) or remove it. It is your right I fought for; use it all you want.
“Kinji Martin said he had just left Times Supermarket….said he parked in the back of Burger King and told his wife to stay in the car…..said he saw blood on a parked truck and on the street.” What the heck is “Mr. Niele” thinking!! Does he think he’s going to be the hero and save the day?? Or maybe a statistic on the evening news!! What ever provoked him to stick his “niele nose” into a police action??? He’s been watching waaaay too much TV. I hope Mr. Rubbernecker Kinji got a good look for his stupidity. He should have used common sense and stayed clear.
I guess he wanted to get his name in the news – hope he got some good shots on his phone.
“Kinji Martin said he had just left Times Supermarket….said he parked in the back of Burger King and told his wife to stay in the car…..said he saw….on a parked truck on the street.” What is “Mr. Niele” thinking!! Does he think he’s going to be the hero and save the day?? Or maybe a statistic on the evening news!! What ever provoked him to stick his “niele nose” into a police action??? He’s been watching waaaay too much TV. I hope Mr. Rubbernecker Kinji got a good look for his curiosity. He should have used common sense and stayed clear.
Maybe he thought Hawaii Five-O was filming and wanted to be in the episode. Yeah, not too smart.
No Kinji was a off duty trigger happy cop waiting to cap somebody, anybody.
Maybe
But not likely , a cop would check in with the others so they don’t wind up shooting at each other.
Amelia , What exactly is it that you have against cops ?
You don’t see them as protection from the kinda guys that might drag you out of your car and either take the car or maybe decide they should take you too for their fun ?
You don’t get it or what , the world isn’t always a nice place. I truly hope you don’t have to find out the hard way.
Thats the thing that got my attention. Three dodos in this story. Or maybe, he’s an off duty first responder.
It’s a shame these 2 thugs weren’t shot dead
Careful SA going delete your comment even though many in the community (myself included) totally agree with it.
No worry , I keep getting that “Your comment is being evaluated…..”. What can you do ? They own the paper. But come hard times who do they run to screaming for help and hiding behind ?
It won’t be the timid ones I promise.
DAMN THAT OFFICER MISSED … ONLY WOUNDED ‘EM … now we’ll have to pay living expenses for these IDIOTS while they spend the rest of their lives at Halawa … with a little luck after they are convicted and incarcerated they’ll try to escape and get shot for real in the process …
This really got some adrenalin pumping.
That is why when they tell you to do something it is a good idea to do it. It is just as scary on the other side of that gun.
I support the police in this shooting. Only thing they could have done better was to kill both of them.
It appears that our officers at HPD need to spend a little more time at the shooting range. Had the officer aimed just a little higher, he’d have nailed these losers right in the head and rid the community of their crimes forever.
surprise the third person did not get shot.