The 20-year-old man wanted in the Christmas Day shooting death of 20-year-old Steve Feliciano at Ala Moana Center surrendered Friday to police.
Dae Han Moon turned himself in at 10:15 a.m. at the
Honolulu Police Department’s main headquarters on Beretania Street, a day after an Oahu grand jury indicted him on a charge of second-degree murder.
Police also arrested Moon on suspicion of auto theft and four firearm-related offenses. His bail has been set at $2 million.
Police were still looking Friday for 25-year-old Lance Bermudez, who is wanted for first-degree hindering prosecution in connection with the killing. A $500,000 warrant had been issued for his arrest.
Bermudez was out on bail in an unrelated unauthorized-entry case and was scheduled to be tried Feb. 13.
A second man, William K.C. Kan, was charged Friday with first-degree hindering prosecution. Police arrested him at his Punchbowl-area home Wednesday.
Police said Kan and Bermudez threatened a witness to the shooting.
Feliciano, affectionately known to family and friends as “Stevie,” died Wednesday at the Queen’s Medical Center after he suffered a gunshot wound to the back of the head at Ala Moana Center’s parking lot Sunday night.
Police and a deputy prosecutor said that at about
7:30 p.m. Feliciano and some friends went to the fifth floor of the shopping center’s Ewa wing parking structure to get some marijuana from another person.
Before they could pick up the marijuana, Moon and his friends arrived in a vehicle. A deputy prosecutor told a circuit judge Thursday that one of Moon’s friends initiated a fight with Feliciano, setting off others who took part in the fight.
After the altercation, Moon returned to his car and grabbed a firearm. According to the deputy prosecutor, Moon struck Feliciano with the gun before he fired into the back of his head.
Feliciano was taken to Queen’s, where he was unresponsive and put on life support. He died Wednesday afternoon.
Moon was free on $30,000 bail on charges of auto theft and firearm possession when the shooting occurred.
At about 1:30 a.m. Dec. 5, Moon entered a vehicle and allegedly rammed into a police vehicle and rock wall as he tried to flee from officers. Police were responding to a report of suspicious activity at an apartment building on Kaheka Street.
After officers apprehended Moon, police discovered a firearm on the driver’s seat of the vehicle.
Sunday’s fatal shooting occurred six days after Moon pleaded not guilty in Circuit Court to the auto theft and firearm possession charges.
Moon’s record with the Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center shows three criminal convictions.
On Feb. 22 he was found guilty of two counts of driving under the influence of drugs and one count of driving with a restricted license, all petty misdemeanors. He was sentenced to two days’ confinement for each of the DUIs and three days for driving with a restricted license.
The victim’s sister Carine Feliciano, 24, said the family wants Moon held without bail.
“This is a dangerous person,” she said. “Not only did he hit him, he shot him in the head with his back turned.”
She added, “We feel angry, but at the same time I don’t want to waste my energy on someone like him. We believe God will make sure he gets what he deserves.”
Feliciano is survived by parents Ralph and Fiti Feliciano, two brothers and six sisters.