Police say 3 men
have links to 2 slayingsShootings in Aiea and Pearl City
allegedly were related to drugs
Honolulu police say they have tied three men to two drug-related killings: one last month at an Aiea home and another in the Pearl City Shopping Center parking lot Saturday.
Micah Keone Kanahele, 22, has been charged with murder and attempted murder in the death of Guylan Nuuhiwa and the shooting of Winston Domingo on Saturday in Pearl City.
Rosalino Ramos, 22, and Kevin Harris, 26, were already in custody at Oahu Community Correctional Center on robbery charges in the case. According to police reports, Kanahele allegedly shot Nuuhiwa and Domingo over a 4-ounce bag of marijuana.
Yesterday, police arrested a 23-year-old man for suspicion of murder in the shooting of 49-year-old Greg Morishima at 99-121 Pamoho Place in Aiea on Oct. 26.
Police also said three other men were arrested while already in custody for another case. Sources involved in the investigation identified the three as Kanahele, Ramos and Harris.
Police said four men walked down the driveway of the Pamoho Place home armed with two handguns and a rifle. Sources familiar with the investigation said the suspects approached Morishima and demanded crystal methamphetamine, or "ice."
When Morishima told the suspects he had no ice, two of them shot him in the lower abdomen, sources said. Witnesses told police they saw a sport utility vehicle leave after the shooting. Morishima was taken to Kapiolani Medical Center in critical condition and was transferred to the Queen's Medical Center, where he died.
Five days later, three of the same four suspects allegedly met Nuuhiwa and Domingo in the parking lot fronting the Pearl City Longs Drugs store at 850 Kamehameha Highway, where a suspect and one of the victims got into a dispute over a bag of marijuana.
The argument led to Harris allegedly punching Nuuhiwa in the face and Kanahele shooting and killing Nuuhiwa, then firing at Domingo several times, according to a police affidavit.
While Domingo "ran for his life" toward a nearby gas station, the affidavit said, he heard Harris yelling, "Micah, shoot him again." Domingo was last reported in stable condition.
Although police believe only two of the suspects involved in the Aiea case shot the victim, all four suspects were arrested yesterday for suspicion of second-degree murder.
Police are still looking for a .32-caliber weapon believed to have been used in both shootings.
Police said both Morishima and Nuuhiwa were shot with a .32-caliber handgun. Morishima also was shot with a rifle.
Investigators recovered a rifle and handgun during the arrests of the four suspects and are testing them to see if they were used in either murder. Police said, however, that the recovered handgun is not a .32-caliber weapon.
Ramos, Harris and Kanahele are scheduled to appear Monday at a preliminary hearing at Honolulu District Court involving the Pearl City shooting. Ramos and Harris are charged with robbery in that case and are being held in lieu of $100,000 bail. Kanahele is charged with second-degree murder, first- and second-degree attempted murder, robbery, eight firearms offenses and two drug offenses and is being held in lieu of $1 million bail.
According to the Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center, Kanahele has two prior felony firearms convictions, Ramos has one felony and one misdemeanor firearms conviction and Harris has two misdemeanor convictions -- one for terroristic threatening and another for assault.
Police have not charged anyone in the Aiea shooting.
