Help sought in identifying Big Isle victim

Police are seeking the public’s help in identifying a woman who was killed early Monday morning after being hit by a truck while walking on Route 130 near Kaloli Drive in Keaau.

Police said the driver of the vehicle reported the accident to Hilo police at 1 a.m.

Officers checked the area and discovered the woman on the mauka shoulder of the road. She might have been walking to Pahoa when she was struck by a 2003 Ford Ranger pickup traveling south, police said.

The victim was taken to the Hilo Medical Center, where she died at 6:09 a.m.

Police have opened a negligent-homicide investigation and have ordered an autopsy to determine the cause of death.

The woman is described as between 25 and 30 years old, with brown hair and wearing a black T-shirt and blue jeans.

Anyone with information regarding this case is asked to call Officer Keith Nacis at 961-8119 or the police nonemergency number at 935-3311.

This is the sixth traffic fatality on Hawaii island this year, compared with five at the same time last year.

Autopsy to be held after boy is fatally shot

An autopsy will be conducted today after a boy was fatally shot Friday in Puna, Hawaii island police said.

Officers found the boy had been shot at about 8:10 p.m. at an Oshiro Road home in Mountain View.

At the time, police were investigating a report of a juvenile being injured by a BB gun.

The boy was taken in critical condition to the Hilo Medical Center, where he died Saturday.