Suspect found dead after woman fatally shot near Pearlridge Center
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Lt. Deena Thoemmes, left, talks to a family member of a woman who was fatally shot in the parking lot of Pearlridge Center today.
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Honolulu police cars line the scene of the parking structure at Pearlridge Center after a woman was fatally shot Friday morning.
UPDATE: 1:55 p.m.
A Waipahu man wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of his estranged wife this morning in a parking garage at Pearlridge Center was found dead in Waipahu this afternoon, police said.
Family members identified the woman who was killed at about 10 a.m. as Theresa Cachuela of Kamakana Street in Waipahu, the owner of House of Glam Hawaii LLC. They told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser that police were looking for her estranged husband of more than a decade, Jason Cachuela.
After an island-wide search, Jason Cachuela was found dead in Waipahu, police announced at 1:41 p.m.
According to a petition for a temporary restraining order that was granted Wednesday, Theresa Cachuela warned that her estranged husband owned “guns” and that on Dec. 6 he “continued to make threats of killing himself in front of me and my children were present.”
“He then took me alone to Waikiki and held a knife to his neck traumatizing me and scaring me,”she wrote. “The next morning he showed up to my house early in the morning to apologize. I tried to help him and talk to him but he kept threatening to kill himself again.”
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The fatal shooting led to the lockdown of nearby Pali Momi Medical Center at 10:10 a.m.
Officials said that at about 12:46 p.m. the lockdown at the medical center and all nearby Hawaii Pacific Health facilities was lifted.
“The Honolulu Police Department has informed us that there is no active threat in the area and Pali Momi’s security team has issued an all-clear. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused,” Gloria Brooks, chief operating officer of the Pali Momi Medical Center, said in a statement.
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A woman in her 30s was fatally shot in a parking garage near Pearlridge Center this morning and the suspect remains at large, authorities said.
Honolulu Emergency Medical Services officials said paramedics responded to a call at about 10:05 a.m. and found a woman with an “apparent gunshot wound” or wounds. The woman was dead on arrival, EMS said.
Honolulu Police Department dispatch initially said officers responded to suspicious circumstance call at 98-211 Pali Momi St. at 10:08 a.m. The call was later elevated to a homicide.
“HPD officers are at the scene of a homicide in the area of Pearlridge Center,” an initial statement from HPD said. “No arrests have been made at this time. Additional information will be provided as it becomes available.”
The Bank of Hawaii Pearlridge branch and a parking garage near the branch was closed as police investigate.
Pali Momi Medical Center was put on lockdown after the shooting.
“Pali Momi Medical Center is currently on lockdown as a precaution due to a shooting that occurred this morning at Pearlridge Center near the Pali Momi Cancer Center,” said a statement from a Hawai‘i Pacific Health spokesperson. “Facilities on lockdown include Pali Momi Medical Center, Pali Momi Cancer Center, Pali Momi Outpatient Pavilion and the Straub Pearlridge Clinic. The Pali Momi Command Center is activated.”
The shooting near Pearlridge Center comes three days before Christmas when last-minute shoppers are flocking to Hawaii malls and stores.
