Posted on 01/07/2023 1:35:08 PM PST by Jyotishi
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Police are searching for two armed suspects following a shooting near a busy Waikiki intersection on Friday night that left a man critically injured.
Honolulu EMS said the victim, in his 20s, suffered multiple gunshot wounds.
The shooting happened about 10 p.m. near the intersection of Kalakaua Avenue and Lewers Street.
Video: The Honolulu Police Department confirmed they are looking for two armed suspects.
Sources said the two are believed to have fled in a vehicle.
Paramedics treated the victim on scene before transporting him to a hospital in critical condition.
The road was closed in the area Friday night amid the police investigation.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
Get Hawaii 5-0 to take over the case...They’ll solve it in one hour...
Looks like drug deal gone bad or …… love quadrangle
“Book ‘em, Dano.”
Right.
Update:
Officer Kono Kalakaua rushed out of a cocktail party, still wearing her red evening gown and with her hair to one side, tackled the two men, slammed their foreheads together, disarmed them, forced them to go face down and put cuffs on them before uniformed officers arrived to assemble details for the report.
Did not even mess her lipstick or break a fingernail...She is one tough surfer dudette...
Can’t be. Guns are outlawed in Hawaii. This must be fake news. /s
CCW permits just starting to get issued, look for the liberal media to try and tie that in to this.
They have been howling about shootouts for months now.
Hmmm, no description of the perps.🤔
No, but there’s more:
Shooting on busy Waikiki thoroughfare prompts calls for greater law enforcement presence
Video: A shooting on a busy Waikiki street that left a man critically injured has residents calling for more patrol officers in the state’s no. 1 tourist destination.
By Jolanie Martinez
Hawaii News Now
Published: January 7, 2023
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A shooting on a busy Waikiki street that left a man critically injured has residents calling for more patrol officers in the state’s no. 1 tourist destination.
The shooting happened around 10 p.m. Friday near the intersection of Kalakaua Avenue and Lewers Street.
Police sources said the two suspects allegedly fired more than 20 shots and fled in a vehicle.
HPD is looking for two armed suspects, but the agency hasn’t said anything else about the shooting.
Hawaii News Now reached out to HPD for updates but has yet to hear back.
Witness Demi Elise said the gunshots sounded like fireworks.
“It didn’t sound like a normal gunshot, sounded like an automatic,” said Elise.
Waikiki Neighborhood Board Member Jeff Merz said the situation in the area has gotten out of hand.
“I refuse to accept this as the new norm,” Merz said. “When I hear about these things, it’s always surprising. We can’t let this become the new norm.”
It hasn’t even been a year since 20-year-old Marqus McNeil was gunned down near the same intersection.
A month before that shooting, fast-moving flames engulfed the back side of Moose McGillycuddy’s on Lewers Street. Some believe squatters set the shuttered pub on fire.
Merz said homelessness and crime are only getting worse in Waikiki.
“It’s just not a good area to be late at night,” said Merz. “For the full range of reasons of what bars staying up late and drinking and fighting causes.”
Former chairman of the Hawaii Bar Owners Association Bill Comeford said bars aren’t to blame.
He said it’s due to a lack of enforcement on the streets.
“They have to have a control just like we control the interior of our bars,” said Comerford. “They have to control the streets at the same time at night.”
“Are they doing it? No they’re not.”
Both Merz and Comerford agree that there needs to be more foot patrol officers around Waikiki.
“They need to have a presence,” said Merz. “I see more Waikiki Improvement Association cleanup crew in the green shirts than I do police officers walking the beat in Waikiki.”
“I used to walk the streets all the time, no fears,” add Comerford. “I wouldn’t do it these days. That’s very sad.”
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