Woman dies after being shot near Whitmore Village in Wahiawa
A woman in her 30s was shot Saturday morning in a remote area near Whitmore Village in Wahiawa.
She was taken to a hospital in critical condition, where she later died, Honolulu police said.
The Honolulu Police Department reported that the woman was on the phone with a friend who overheard the woman arguing with a male. The friend located the woman and called the Honolulu Emergency Services. She told police that while she was on the phone she heard a crash and then a gunshot.
The shooting happened just after 9 a.m. near Kaukonahua Road and Kamehameha Highway.
Paramedics treated the woman at the scene before transporting her to a trauma facility.
Police were still looking for the shooter as of Saturday night.
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The shooting happened on undeveloped land owned by the state Department of Agriculture.
Two vehicles were towed from the site, one of them a Jeep with a bullet hole in the driver’s side windshield. The bullet that caused the hole is believed to be the shot that hit the woman.