Victim’s kin perplexed over why man was shot

Family members  are hoping for more answers two weeks after a man drove himself to a Waianae clinic with multiple gunshot wounds and collapsed.

Police said Kele Stout showed up at the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center at about 7:20 p.m. Sept. 16 with more than five gunshot wounds.

He lost consciousness after arriving and hasn’t been able to provide any information about his injuries.

Police opened an attempted-murder investigation and are asking the public for any information about Stout’s injuries.

On Thursday police released a sketch of a possible suspect in the case, composed from a witness’s description of a 6-foot-tall man in his 20s, weighing 250 pounds, with short black hair. No additional information was released about the case.

CrimeStoppers coordinator Sgt. Kim Buffett has said Stout’s injuries are in an area where they could not have been self-inflicted. She declined to share further details because police hope witnesses can provide those.

Kent Cotton, who occasionally acted as Stout’s guardian when Stout was a teenager, said Stout wasn’t a troublemaker.

“He loved dancing Tahitian,” said Cotton, who still kept in touch with him. “He loved his Hawaiian studies.”

Cotton said Stout, who is about 23, was always easy to talk with.

“I was dumbfounded by what happened when I heard about it,” Cotton said recently. “Kele’s a good kid. Everybody that knows him likes him. It just comes as a total shock that this happened.”

Siouxsie Hemenway, 26, Stout’s older sister, described her brother as a hard worker and said he works at a company that builds countertops.

“I’ve never known him to get into any trouble that would lead to something like this,” she said. “He’s a really friendly person. I don’t know why someone would do this.”

She said Stout has the same father as surfer Kai­noa McGee. He has seven siblings on his mother’s side.

Hemenway said Stout was living in Ewa Beach recently, and she didn’t know why he was in Waianae the day he was shot.

She said he was working in town the day he was injured and usually calls to visit her children if he is in Waianae. She said Stout was shot in an unknown location in Waianae.

Hemenway said she saw Stout at the Queen’s Medical Center, where he underwent surgery and was put into a medically induced coma. She said she was told that he would recover, but hasn’t been able to see him at the hospital recently because of security measures in place to protect him.

“He’s just a really nice, loving guy, and we just want to know who and why,” she said.

Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call CrimeStoppers at 955-8300 or *CRIME from a cellphone.