Police say a 51-year-old convicted car thief shot and killed by police in Pacific Palisades in August was the same man involved in an officer-involved shooting at Red Hill in July.

James Pickard Jr. on  Aug.  6 was shot and killed by two police officers in Pacific Palisades while driving a stolen car on Komo Mai Drive.

Authorities said Pickard drove into a police car then reversed toward two other officers, while trying to flee.

The medical examiner said Pickard died from gunshots to the head and torso.

Honolulu Police Chief Louis Kealoha said after the Aug. 6 shooting that two of three officers who responded fired seven shots. But police would not say how many shots each officer fired.

One officer is an 18-year Honolulu Police Department veteran. The others have 11 and four years of service. 

Pickard and his passenger were parked in front of a Komo Mai Drive residence that neighbors described as “a drug house.” His passenger, Evette Hilongo, was not injured and was later charged with car theft.

Pickard is also suspected of trying to run over a police sergeant with a stolen car in the Red Hill area on July 24.

The officer fired a shot before jumping out of the way

The stolen Toyota was recovered, but the suspect was not caught.

In that incident, a sergeant patrolling the Red Hill area saw a man leaning into a vehicle and stopped to ask him questions at Ala Kapuna Street and Moanalualani Place, near the First Assembly of God church.

Police said the same man may have been breaking into other vehicles in a nearby neighborhood, and the sergeant was aware of those break-ins.

When the sergeant approached, the man jumped into the vehicle and drove toward him, police said. The sergeant jumped out of the way, and fired one shot at the man,.

The officer injured his hip while moving out of the way of the vehicle.

Pickard had 22 convictions, beginning in 1985 — 10 of them felonies, including eight for car theft, according to the Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center.