Newswatch
Police subdue a shooting suspect today in the Hawaii Newspaper Agency parking lot.
Photo by Craig T. Kojima, Star-Bulletin
The man was taken to a hospital for treatment of minor injuries before being taken to the police cellblock to be booked.
Police were treated for minor injuries at Hawaii Newspaper Agency parking lot, where the man was apprehended.
The commotion started about 10:30 a.m. today at a Chevron station at Queen and South streets. Owner Gilda Young said a woman ran screaming for help into the station; they immediately called 911 and went to her assistance.
Young said the suspect fired about three shots at the woman and employees who were trying to boost her over a wall to the Kakaako Fire Station. The woman ran toward South Street and jumped into a passing car, followed by the suspect, who fired one shot.
The man apparently fled the scene on foot up South Street, and apparently walked in to the HNA parking lot through an alley off the South Street entrance.
Witnesses said the man casually walked up to a woman just getting into her car in the parking lot and asked her for a ride.
Just as she said no, witnesses said, about seven police officers, some with guns drawn, came running from the alley.
Police recovered a handgun at the HNA parking lot. The woman at Chevron was also taken to a hospital for treatment.
Some day he hopes to go back to his ancestral homeland, said Aitab, a councilman for Bikini Atoll and acting mayor of Ejit Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
Aitab and Valentina Bobo were among the Marshallese on hand for song and dance of the Marshall Islands, prayer and grim tales of exile and lingering radiation, marking the 50th anniversary of Bikini nuclear tests Thursday night at Honolulu Stadium Park.
Lawsuits filed against the United States for damage to health and property resulted in financial compensation for Bikinians. In 1988, the U.S. government approved a $90 million trust fund to be paid to Bikinians for rehabilitation and resettlement of the atoll.
But he said he believes the decision by the state Housing Finance and Development Corp. to assign the tax credits to four neighbor-island rental housing projects was a sound one.
Cayetano and Mayor Jeremy Harris in late May exchanged political barbs over the Pawaa superblock project. Cayetano is a strong backer of former City Councilman Arnold Morgado, a Harris rival in this year's mayoral race.
BHP Gas Co. contained the leak and repaired the valve, and residents returned to their homes. The Fire Department's hazardous materials unit also responded.
The department said the cause of the 5:36 a.m. fire at the home of Fred Hammond was "possibly suspicious." Hammond was off island at the time.
The fire was limited to the living room floor and walls of the one-story house. Damage was estimated at $30,000.
A volunteer fire station is located in Ocean View, but the nearest regular fire station is in Pahala, about 25 miles away.
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