$1M warrant issued as jury indicts man in shooting

A state judge issued a $1 million warrant for Bronson Gouveia’s arrest Thursday after an Oahu grand jury returned an indictment charging him with attempted murder.

The indictment also charges Gouveia with using a firearm to commit the attempted murder and with being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.

The charges stem from a shooting in Kahaluu on Sunday.

Honolulu police said Gouveia, 41, shot his girlfriend near the intersection of Waihee Place and Waihee Road and then fled. They issued a CrimeStoppers bulletin asking for the public’s help in locating Gouveia.

The bulletin included pictures and descriptions of Gouveia and his car. He remains at large.

Deputy Prosecutor Leigh Okimoto told Circuit Judge Colette Garibaldi on Thursday that Gouveia and his girlfriend got into an argument in the driveway of their home. The girlfriend got into her car and started to drive away when she heard multiple gunshots.

Okimoto said one of the gunshots struck the girlfriend, entering under her right ear and and breaking her jaw. She said police recovered 10 shell casings at the scene and determined they were fired from a semi-automatic firearm.

Police say Gouveia is armed and dangerous and is known to frequent the Kaneohe and Waianae areas.

Gouveia has 22 prior convictions, 14 of them for felonies. One of the felony convictions is for first-degree assault for firing two shots into the rear windshield of his then-girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend’s pickup truck as the ex-boyfriend was driving away. Gouveia was charged with attempted murder but pleaded guilty to the lesser charge in a deal with the prosecutor. He completed his 10-year prison term for the assault earlier this year.