4 dead, 2 injured in shooting in Hawaii

LOS ANGELES – Four people, including the suspect, were killed and two others injured in a shooting Saturday night in Honolulu County, Hawaii, authorities said Sunday.

According to Honolulu police, officers responded to a residence in the Waianae Valley area shortly after 11:15 p.m. local time (9:15 a.m. GMT Sunday) on Saturday.

Multiple 911 calls from the Waianae home reported that the neighbor was operating a front-end loader and used it to ram several cars into the home. Several people were in the carport and were fleeing or attempting to flee when the suspect opened fire, striking the victims, the department said in a news release, adding that at some point a 42-year-old male resident of the home shot the suspect with a handgun.

The resident who shot the suspect was arrested for first-degree murder, the press release said.

“Three people, including the suspect, were pronounced dead at the scene. Other people were taken to the hospital,” the department previously said in a Facebook post.

Hours later, the department confirmed in an update that one of the injured had died in hospital and the other two were still in the hospital.

Honolulu police held a press conference on Sunday to discuss the incident. “There have been several incidents over the last few months and weeks, but this incident has nothing to do with that. This incident occurred because of neighbors,” Honolulu Police Chief Joe Logan was quoted as saying by local news outlet HawaiiNewsNow, adding that the shooting was “not a random act, it was a targeted one.”

The Waianae Valley area is located on the west coast of the island of Oahu, where the state capital Honolulu is located.

The shooting is the latest in a series of violent crimes in West Oahu.

As local television station KITV reported a few weeks ago, residents said they were “frustrated and fed up with the recent wave of violence causing chaos in the community” following numerous shootings and murders – many involving youth – adding that “recent tragedies are forcing state leaders to step in and increase law enforcement here.”