Dispatcher Dwight Kekua: Police Department. Transcript of Anna Sherrell’s
5:25 p.m., Dec. 24, 1991
call to policeAnna Sherrell: Is this the Police Department, Kea, in Pahoa?
Kekua: This is the Police Department in Hilo. May I help you?
Hilo Police Dispatch Call
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Sherrell: Oh yes, I guess you may. I wanted to report an accident. It's on Vacationland in Kapoho. I was just driving into um, ah, Pahoa, start on my way up the road. And there's a bicycle completely crushed there. The girl's shoe's out on the street. Some of her hair, her watch has been ripped off of her from the impact, the tracks look like it's hit and run. There's a lot of weeds around there. Big thick bushes. I don't know if there's a body or what.
Kekua:Where is the girl? O.K., on the road going in?
Sherrell:On the road going in. The red cinder road about um, two thirds of the way down or something. You can't miss it. We got some people out there taking pictures or something so in case anybody runs over the tracks you'll have some pictures of it. Um, I didn't, I'm not a bush person. I'm not going out in the bushes but I can't, right there is big hunks of her hair, one tennis shoe, her watch has been knocked off of her, her seat's knocked off, her bike is smashed and I, there's I can't see a body. Looks like their shoe was like clean on the other side of the the road, up the road. Like it was a pretty hard impact. And it looks like they took off and spun out, man, and just kept going according to the tracks. It doesn't look like anybody picked her up. I don't know what's going on. Has anybody reported this?
Kekua:Nope
Sherrell:O.K., well. I don't know. That's all I have, I guess I've done my job.
Kekua gets Sherrell's name and phone number.
Sherrell: You probably should get someone out there. I don't know what's going on but it looks like someone might have gotten pretty hurt.
Kekua:O.K.
Sherrell: O.K.
Kekua: Thank you.
Sherrell: All right. Bye bye.
Kekua: Bye bye.
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