Apartment
building owner
is fatally shot

CORRECTION Saturday, December 25, 2004 » Robert E. Lee, the Makiki man killed at his apartment building Wednesday night, was 71. Police previously gave his age as 68, as reported on Page A4 Thursday. The Honolulu Star-Bulletin strives to make its news report fair and accurate. If you have a question or comment about news coverage, call Editor Frank Bridgewater at 529-4791 or email him at corrections@starbulletin.com.

Police said they have no suspects in the fatal shooting last night of a 68-year-old Makiki man at a Pensacola Street apartment he owned.

Neighbors and friends identified the victim as Robert Lee.

Homicide Lt. Bill Kato said police have no suspects, no motive and no weapon in the case.

Lee was in the carport area of 1555 Pensacola St. when he was shot in the head just before 8:15 p.m.

He was taken by ambulance to Queen's Medical Center, where he died.

A neighbor said the building on the right of the apartment was vacant except for one apartment.

Police said Lee owned the three-story building and lived in a ground-floor apartment.

Shin Choi, a woman in a condominium apartment next door, said she heard what sounded like a firecracker. Five minutes later, she heard Lee's wife "yelling and crying."

She looked outside and saw Lee lying in a pool of blood on the floor of the carport on the driver's side of his truck.

My Lim Nguyen, Lee's next-door neighbor, was shocked when she got home last night to learn he had died. "Oh my God," she said. "I talked with him this morning. He nice guy."

Neighbors said Lee lived at the apartment with his wife.