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Hawaiʻi Island police report that at 8:47 p.m., Saturday evening, (September 8), South Kohala Patrol officers responded to an address on Kanehoa Street in Kamuela for a report of a possible murder/suicide incident. The incident was reported by a third-party on the mainland.

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Hawaiʻi Island police have identified the male and female found dead at a home in Mt. View on Sunday, (April 8), as 54-year-old Jolene-Rae K. Kapua-Allison and 50-year-old Christopher R. Kapua-Allison, a police officer with the Hawaiʻi Police Department.

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HawaiÊ»i Island police are investigating the death of a man and woman at an upper Puna residence. At approximately 3:25 p.m. this afternoon (April 8), police responded to a home in the Pacific Paradise Gardens subdivision in Mountain View. Officers found the lifeless bodies of a male and female within the residence. One of the […]

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Today, Senator Mazie K. Hirono joined a unanimous, bipartisan vote in the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee to advance H.R. 203, the Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for American Veterans (SAV) Act, which would improve access to mental health services and suicide prevention resources for American veterans.

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HawaiÊ»i Island police have identified the man who shot himself during an attempted murder and suicide in the Hawaiian Ocean View Estates subdivision last week. He was identified as 48-year-old Clyde Hawse Criswell, also known as Cris Criswell, of Ocean View. Shortly after 7 p.m. on March 12, Kaʻū patrol officers responded to a report […]

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HawaiÊ»i Island police are investigating an attempted murder and suicide in the Hawaiian Ocean View Estates subdivision in Kaʻū. Shortly after 7 p.m. Wednesday (March 12), Kaʻū patrol officers responded to a report of a shooting at a property on Tiki Lane at the intersection of Luau Drive. Police investigation determined that two men, who […]

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With rates of youth suicide in Hawai‘i on the rise in the last decade, the University of Hawai‘i Mānoa medical school has been awarded $1.4 million to intervene as early as possible in childrens’ lives to prevent suicide. A measure of how serious Hawai’i’s problem has become, the medical school’s three-year award is part of […]

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Big Island police have completed a negligent homicide investigation into the December 13 motor vehicle/pedestrian collision on Hawai’i Belt Road (Route 19) in the Hāmākua District. On that date, a 54-year-old Hilo man was operating a 2009 Peterbuilt tractor-trailer and traveling west on Route 19 when the tractor-trailer struck a 39-year-old Honoka’a man, who stepped […]

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Jolene Medeiros, 24, of Hilo was pronounced dead Saturday morning (January 2) from injuries sustained in a shooting on December 30 in Pi’ihonua. An autopsy to determine the exact cause of death is scheduled for Tuesday (January 5). Detectives have reclassified the case from an attempted murder and suicide to a murder and suicide.

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