(Media release) — Police are investigating a reported shooting incident that occurred last night in Hilo that left two women dead.
At about 11:20 pm on Monday night, police responded to several calls of gunshots in the 600 block of Leilani Street. Responding officers conducted checks within the residence and discovered two victims with apparent gunshot wounds.
Both victims were transported to the Hilo Medical Center where they were pronounced dead. Police are withholding the release of the victim’s identity pending positive identification and notification of the next of kin.
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Five murders already on the Big Island in 2013, as opposed to six in all of 2012.
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The carnage on the highways is very bad, too. Already eight deaths this year.
Yikes!!!!! I never associate Hawaii with heinous crimes!!!
Posted by: Kay Dennison | February 13, 2013 at 02:06 PM
Kay: And yet they happen. They are rare, but we have had an uptick lately. The ones that stick in my mind are the Dana Ireland murder, which rocked the Puna District in the early 90's, and a deliberate assault and drowning around that time at a state park in Puna and the more recent stabbing of a woman in front of horrified witnesses in front of the downtown Hilo bus station. And there is a regular number of bodies discovered around, too. Wonder how many people get deep-sixed.
Posted by: Hattie | February 13, 2013 at 02:22 PM
Gun deaths are not rare as your former commenter said. We just seem to pad our views so that we do not think about the terrible violent society which haunts our peripheral vision.
Posted by: Tabor | February 13, 2013 at 03:14 PM
It seems like we are in a very violent time period. I don't know what's going on but people seem more prone to get angry at each other and nastiness spills over into violent reactions :(
Posted by: Rain Trueax | February 13, 2013 at 03:20 PM
"And there is a regular number of bodies discovered around, too. Wonder how many people get deep-sixed."
I think some of those are homeless people who died of natural causes or exposure.
Posted by: Brandon | February 13, 2013 at 09:48 PM
We heard about this in the news. So sad...
Posted by: Musings | February 13, 2013 at 10:12 PM
I was remembering the Gordon Granger murder, which was drug related. This was in 1997. There were six murders that year on the Big Island. My friend Mary knew Gordon through her work at the Zoo. He was a Friend of the Zoo. He had a beautiful house very close to where I live now. I was at an event there in 1996 and met him briefly.
Very sad and shocking case.
Posted by: Hattie | February 13, 2013 at 11:46 PM