Officers fire at armed robbery suspect in Kalihi 7-Eleven store

Two Honolulu police officers each fired one round at a 35-year-old suspect who was allegedly robbing a Kalihi 7-Eleven with an Airsoft replica handgun Sunday night, but neither bullet hit the suspect, who collapsed to the ground, HPD Deputy Chief John McCarthy said Monday.

“He appears to have collapsed or fainted after the officers got there,” McCarthy said. “Neither round hit him. No one was injured.”

It was HPD’s third officer-involved shooting this year.

David Kinikini was not charged Monday, but was being held in HPD’s cellblock. He had been out on $25,000 bond for several counts, including third-degree promotion of a dangerous drug, first-degree assault on a law enforcement officer and resisting arrest.

A suspect with the same name was arrested Dec. 23 following a bus stop crash in Hauula that killed a 61-year-old man and seriously injured a 55-year-old woman.

Passenger David Kinikini was arrested at the scene of the Hauula crash and charged with hindering prosecution and released after posting $2,000 bail, according to police arrest logs.

Shortly before 8:50 p.m. Sunday at the 7-Eleven at 555 N. King St., McCartney said, officers “responded to multiple calls of a robbery involving a handgun.”

The officers saw a man in the store “with what appeared to be a handgun,” McCarthy said. “He turned, saw them and pointed a gun towards them, causing the two officers to discharge their firearms.”

The suspect’s weapon, McCarthy said, “turned out to be an Airsoft handgun, a pistol.”

The male patrol officers have been with HPD for 14 years and 2-1/2 years, respectively, McCarthy said.

On Jan. 8 a female HPD officer in Waianae shot at a 29-year-old man who allegedly drove a van toward a male HPD officer. The suspect was not hit and ran into the brush.

On Feb. 2 officers in Waipahu twice shot a man suspected of backing a stolen vehicle into a 25-year-veteran HPD officer. The suspect was taken in critical condition to a trauma center.

Officers had stopped the suspected stolen vehicle at 2 a.m. Five people were inside.