MEDIA RELEASE
HawaiÊ»i Island detectives are at the scene of a fatal fire in HÅlualoa.
At 1:56 a.m. Thursday (January 29), Kona Patrol officers responded to a residential fire on the 76-5200 block of Old MÄmalahoa Highway.
When they arrived, the one-story house was fully engulfed in flames. Fire Department personnel extinguished the fire.
Two adults and two children were able to exit the house. Two other children, tentatively identified as an 11-year-old boy and a 6-year-old boy, died in the fire. Their identity is being withheld pending positive identification.
Police and Fire Department personnel are jointly investigating the cause of the fire.
Police do no suspect foul play. An autopsy will be scheduled to determine the exact cause of death.
UPDATED (3:33 p.m. on 1/29/2015)
HawaiÊ»i Island police have identified the two boys killed in a residential fire in HÅlualoa early Thursday.
They were identified as 6-year-old Kaeden Matsuyama and 11-year-old Dexen Matsuyama.
Results of an autopsy conducted Thursday (January 29) have been deferred pending lab tests.
We are grieved and saddened to hear of this horrible loss of life of these two boys. May God bless and be with Dexter Matsuyama and his ohana. Praying for all.