Man shot by police
was fugitivePatrick Prather has been wanted
by Maui police for over a year
WAILUKU >> The man shot in the right shoulder by Maui police Friday morning in a car in Kula after he allegedly refused to give up a loaded handgun has been wanted for more than a year on a probation violation charge.
Police Lt. Glenn Cuomo yesterday confirmed that Patrick S. Prather, 25, was being held at Maui Memorial Medical Center on an outstanding warrant for alleged probation violation.
Prather was listed in guarded condition at the hospital yesterday. His bail on the warrant was set at $20,000.
On Oct. 9, 2000, Prather, a Kula resident, pleaded no contest to various criminal charges, including burglary, second-degree sexual assault, kidnapping and harassment stemming from a break-in of an Upcountry woman's residence in 1999.
He was sentenced in Maui Circuit Court to a year in jail and placed on five years probation.
The county Prosecutor's Office filed a motion in Maui Circuit Court on April 26, 2002, to have Prather's probation revoked, after he allegedly tested positive and admitted to use of an illicit substance.
Another condition of his probation is that he not own, possess or control any firearms.
Police took possession of a loaded 9 mm pistol after the Friday shooting, Cuomo said.
Cuomo said police searched the car this week and found a loaded .22-caliber revolver under the driver's seat of the car and an unloaded .22-caliber semiautomatic pistol in the trunk.
Cuomo said investigators are still checking the ownership history of the firearms.
He said police also found possible drug residue in the vehicle but still need to confirm the nature of the substance.
Police officers arrived in Kula about 8:13 a.m. Friday after receiving a call about a man being hit by a baseball bat in a vacant lot on Pueo Drive on Hawaiian Homestead land.
While investigating the call, police approached a car parked on the road and tried to talk to a woman seated on the driver's side.
A man seated on the front passenger side grabbed a pistol from beneath his seat and was shot after refusing to give up the handgun, police said.
