A shooting in Makaha on Wednesday night that killed a 26-year-old man has his neighbors terrified.
The man died Thursday night, police said. Neighbor Anthony Cansibog, 22, identified him as Chris Medeiros, who used to be a friend of a 23-year-old Makaha man, who was arrested in the case.
Police said the shooting occurred at about 8:15 p.m. on Lahaina Street. Shortly thereafter police identified, and located the suspect nearby. The man was arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder.
Lahaina Street neighbor Shirley Borje, 70, said: “I was in my kitchen cooking rice, and all of a sudden I heard a gunshot and a commotion.”
Borje learned her neighbor, who lived in the next apartment on Lahaina Street, had been shot.
Her granddaughter Jayleen Kaululaau said, “I was scared.”
Borje’s daughter, Shirleen Kaululaau, 42, said her husband drove the man to Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center.
She said the ambulance was “taking too long. As a good Samaritan, I asked my husband to drop him off.
“He walked to the car, and I kind of guided him into the passenger side but he was out of it,” Kaululaau said.
An Emergency Medical Services supervisor reported the victim had a single gunshot wound to the head, and the ambulance was dispatched to the health center. An ambulance transported the victim to the Queen’s Medical Center in critical condition.
Kaululaau said police were waiting at the health center when her husband dropped off their neighbor and wrote a statement for police.
Sean Sullivan, 18, a friend of the suspect, was at the suspect’s house on Noholio Road, where there were initial reports of a drive-by shooting after the Lahaina Street shooting.
Lahaina Street resident Frances Cansibog, 57, said she heard arguing earlier Wednesday afternoon by her back gate. “Swearing back and forth, that’s all I heard,” she said.
She went to bed early and didn’t hear any shots fired, but said the area is known for drug dealing.
