Posted on 04/24/2017 12:11:04 PM PDT by SSS Two
SEATTLE — The King County Prosecutor’s Office charged a 29-year-old woman in connection with the January 20 shooting on the University of Washington campus.
The victim, a 34-year-old man, was shot once in the abdomen outside Kane Hall during a protest.
The defendant, Elizabeth Hokoana, was charged with Assault in the First Degree with a firearm enhancement on Monday. Her husband, 29-year-old Marc Hokoana, was charged with Assault in the Third Degree for his involvement in the incident.
“The evidence will show that these defendants took a gun into a volatile protest in Red Square, and that Marc Hokoana engaged in several provocative acts, including using pepper spray on the crowd,” said Dan Satterberg, King County Prosecuting Attorney. “The crowd reacted predictably to being pepper sprayed, but the evidence will show that at the time Elizabeth Hokoana fired her pistol that her husband was not in imminent danger,” he added.
University of Washington Police Chief John Vinson praised the support received from both the Seattle and campus communities. He said, “Cooperation from witnesses, including several people sending us video of the incident contributed to our detectives determining what happened.”
Both defendants are scheduled for arraignment on May 8 at 8:30 a.m. in courtroom 1201 of the King County Courthouse.
Red Square at UW. The commies aren’t hiding anything anymore.
In court documents, a senior prosecutor wrote that the couple "went to the event at the UW campus with the intent to provoke altercations with protesters who they knew would also be at this controversial event."Court documents say a police investigation shows that Marc Hokoana sent a Facebook message on Jan 19, 2017, that read : "I can't wait until tomorrow. I'm going to the Milo event, and if the snowflakes get out of hand, I'm just going to wade through their ranks and start cracking skulls."
"I can't wait for tomorrow, I'm going to the Milo event and if the snowflakes get out off (sic) hand I'm just going to wade through their ranks and start cracking skulls." According to investigative records, Marc claimed his wife was going to be armed, but he wasn't, saying, "I'm going full melee.""The defendants created a situation designed to allow Elizabeth Hokoana to shoot the victim in the middle of an extremely crowded event under the guise of defending herself of her husband," [Senior Deputy Prosecutor Mary] Barbosa went on to write. "The degree of planning involved in this crime demonstrates the danger that these defendants present to the community." Indeed detectives found Facebook messages sent by Marc Hokoana to a Facebook friend that morning, including:
“”I can’t wait for tomorrow, I’m going to the Milo event and if the snowflakes get out off (sic) hand I’m just going to wade through their ranks and start cracking skulls.””
King County juries hate typos.
Why do I have warm and fuzzy feelings about this.
The tax resulting from stupidity knows no political boundaries...
It’s been Red Square since the seventies, at least.
Satterberg is an anti-gun pussy. The guy that got shot basically admitted he was attacking the husband. The only purpose in this is to make the conservatives keep their guns at home and take their beatings quietly.
I hope the couple has not been posting on FR; they were very foolish and may be headed to state prison.
I saw video of that event, and I saw leftists beating at least one other person. Why was no one charged with that?
Left Coast kangaroo court - #FakeJudges, #FakeLaw - probably have suppressed any exculpatory evidence, and have hostile witnesses perjuring themselves.
There, that's all fixed. :)
This is where the rioters are going. Violence has a way of escalating.
Hokoana should have realized that there was AntiFA in the prosecutor's office and behind the bench in the courtroom.
Wonder if the prosecutor & judge will be wearing their Black-Block AntiFA facemasks?
This is why it is unwise to take a gun to a planned protest.
If you have to use it, the burden of proof will be on you...and that’s a best case scenario.
Even if you are not provocative.
The focus of this case rests with the perception of imminent danger. I have talked about this situation with Dan Satterberg and he gave me the situations that he would interpret as imminent danger. I am sure Elizabeth Hokoana, with the right circumstances, fits into his interpretation. I understand the prosecution took all the videos of the incident and looked at them with great care. Some of the videos were electronically enhanced. After enhancement this audio was found:
The husband and wife can be seen talking to each other. An audio analyst was able to isolate the audio and told police that Hokoana tells his wife, “Calm down” and “don’t shoot anyone.” He then says to her, “They have to start this. They have to start it,” according to the analysis.
Now, we will get little details because it is now a felony case. I am hoping my FRiends can get more details . . .
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