Suspect in Maili mass shooting appears in court
A 23-year-old man charged in connection with a mass shooting in Maili made his initial appearance at Honolulu District Court.
Jacob A. Borge appeared before Judge Kristine Yoo via video conference from the courthouse cellblock today on charges of one count of second-degree murder in the shooting death of 34-year-old Gary Rabellizsa-Manner.
Borge also was charged Wednesday with one count of first-degree attempted murder in connection with the shooting at Rabellizsa-Manner and three other men wounded in the incident, three counts of second-degree attempted murder, five counts of carrying a firearm in commission of a separate felony and one count of place to keep a pistol or revolver, according to court documents.
He is being held at the Oahu Community Correctional Center in lieu of $2 million aggregate bail.
A petition was filed against a 16-year-old boy, identified by sources as Shaedan-Styles McEnroe-Keaulii, for the same charges in the case. He is being held at a juvenile detention facility.
Court documents filed at district court today indicate McEnroe-Keaulii is related to the Rabellizsa family.
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Police said a fight broke out among a group of males in the parking lot after the cockfight in Maili ended. Shots were fired and five people in the immediate area were struck.
Police in court documents said Rabellizsa-Manner and two other men were not involved in the group and attempted to stop the fight. One of men who attempted to stop the fight told police he saw a person holding a handgun and began shooting at the crowd.
Another man, Cathy Rabellizsa’s husband, also told police that he and Gary Rabellizsa-Manner attempted to stop the fight when one of the males attacked Gary, court documents said.
Rabellizsa-Manner allegedly punched the male to defend himself when Rabellizsa-Manner was attacked by other males.
Cathy Rabellizsa’s husband told police the male who initially punched Rabellizsa-Manner got back on his feet, allegedly pointed a handgun at the husband and Cathy Rabellizsa and shot about five to six times.
A second male with a handgun allegedly shot at Rabellizsa-Manner multiple times.
Officers responded to a call of a shooting in the rear lot of 87-131 Kaukamana Road just after 12:10 a.m. Saturday.
Rabellizsa-Manner and Rabelliza were taken via personal vehicles to the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center where they were later pronounced dead.
Rabellizsa-Manner sustained multiple gunshot wounds to his hand and torso and Rabellizsa sustained a single gunshot wound to her face.
Police said two men sustained a single gunshot wound to their right arm and a third man sustained a single gunshot wound to his inner left thigh. All were treated and released from hospitals.
The suspects fled the scene before officers arrived. Police recovered several spent casings on the ground at the scene.
Borge and McEnroe-Keaulii turned themselves in at the Honolulu Police Department’s Alapai Street headquarters Tuesday night.
Rabellizsa-Manner, a sheet metal fabricator, was a husband and father to six children.
In a GoFundMe page set up to help with funeral expenses, Rabellizsa-Manner’s wife said her husband was in the wrong place at the wrong time when he intervened between two groups of men involved in an altercation. “As a result of trying to keep the peace, my husband was fatally shot multiple times,” Kat Rabellizsa said on the page.
She described her husband as a kind-hearted, loyal and generous man. “He was incredibly humble and grateful for all the blessings he received throughout his life,” Rabellizsa-Manner’s wife said.
Cathy Rabellizsa was described as loving, caring and friendly. In a separate GoFundMe page set up by her daughter, Keri Rabellizsa said her mother had a heart of gold and put others before herself.