NEIGHBOR ISLAND

Suspect arrested in fatal shooting

Big Island police are investigating a shooting yesterday morning that left a man dead.

Hilo police responded at 9:07 a.m. to reports of gunshots at Puhi Bay. When police arrived, they found a 33-year-old man with a gunshot wound in the chest.

The man was transported to the Hilo Medical Center's emergency room, where he was pronounced dead at 10:20 a.m. The victim has been identified as Cameron Seleaitu Mauga. He had four criminal convictions: two misdemeanors and two petty misdemeanors.

In 1994 he was convicted of disorderly conduct and criminal contempt of court. In 2003 he was convicted of failing to appear in court, and in 2004 he was convicted of criminal contempt.

At 9:16 a.m. police arrested a 31-year-old man at the scene on suspicion of second-degree murder. He is being held at the Hilo police cellblock and was being interviewed last night, said Detective Norbert Serrao. No further information was immediately available.

HONOLULU

Bus run-in victim still critically hurt

A 62-year-old woman remained in critical condition yesterday after she was struck by a tour bus.

At about 8 p.m. Saturday the woman was riding a red electric scooter southbound in a crosswalk at the intersection of Kapiolani Boulevard and Mahukona Street.

A 1978 tour bus, driven by a 46-year-old man, was turning right from Mahukona Street onto Kapiolani Boulevard when it struck the woman. The woman was transported to the Queen's Medical Center in critical condition.

Police have ruled out speed and alcohol as factors. There were no other injuries.

Firefighters spare home from blaze

A Pacific Palisades home was saved by firefighters yesterday afternoon.

At 12:40 p.m. yesterday, Honolulu firefighters were alerted to a fire at a single-story, four-bedroom home on Komo Mai Drive in Pacific Palisades.

Two women, one in her 90s and the other in her 60s, stay at the home but were not there at the time of the blaze. Fire Capt. Terry Seelig the blaze did not do substantial damage, but did cause heat and smoke damage throughout the home.

The fire, started by a faulty electrical outlet, caused $265,000 in damage, Seelig said. The two women are currently staying with family members.

4 saved after boat capsizes

Rescue officials saved four people, including two children, from the ocean after their 18-foot fishing boat capsized outside Keehi Lagoon.

Fire spokesman Capt. Terry Seelig said a helicopter arrived at the scene by 9:30 a.m. to rescue the two men and two children. The boat was towed in to the harbor. There were no injuries.

WAIKIKI

Woman found floating in water

Honolulu paramedics and lifeguards performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation on a woman in her 50s who was found Saturday floating face down in the ocean near Kuhio Beach.

Emergency Medical Services spokesman Bryan Cheplic said the woman was taken to a hospital in critical condition. The incident was reported at about 11 a.m.