Man dies after being shot by HPD officers in Makiki
JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO@STARADVERTISER.COM
A Honolulu police officer carries yellow crime scene tape outside Pumehana at 1221 Kinau St. Officers shot a man armed with a knife inside the building. The man died at the hospital.
A man died Tuesday after being shot by police officers on Kinau Street, authorities said.
Police were responding to a report from a man who said his uncle was wielding a butcher knife in his unit at 1212 Kinau St. about 4:40 p.m., according to a police dispatch report.
“The male threatened the officers with the knives and officers fired at him, critically injuring him,” a Honolulu Police Department spokeswoman said.
An Emergency Medical Services spokeswoman said one person was treated and taken to a hospital in critical condition. Police said the man later died.
Kim Lindvald, who lives at the low-income housing project where the man was shot, said she had just returned home on the 21st floor and several minutes later heard four bangs. She went to investigate and heard that police had shot a man.
She saw medical personnel place the victim into an ambulance and identified him as Walden Dang, who lived about eight floors below her.
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“He gets angry very easily over small things,” she said.
28 responses to “Man dies after being shot by HPD officers in Makiki”
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Guess the buggah had a few screws loose. Drugs?
“He gets angry very easily over small things,”
red flag!!!!
Half the posters here fit that profile…
Good one! lol
Beat me to it. I call them passionate until the name calling starts. Then things get really crazy.
Good riddance
Too late for anger management classes…..
The problem of mental illness out here and in America is huge. The only thing that might have been done differently is if the HPD officers had more extensive training dealing with unstable, disturbed persons. I am so sorry for the mentally disturbed man and his family but likely nothing else could have been done given what we have now.
scary east side…
According to television news, police responded to a 911 call but no info as to what the nature of the call was.
“Man With Knife Threatens Police, Shot and Killed.” Wouldn’t this be a more accurate headline?
…..or Man with behavioral issues shot by HPD before psychiatrist could be involved. The responding officers had left their tasers at Zippy’s and had no choice but to open fire. Traffic was snarled by the crush of personal injury attorneys arriving at the scene. City officials were seen planning a bake sale to pay for the coming lawsuit while a representative of SHPO was running about shouting “nothing to see here. go home”.
Luv it
Tasers are options, not required use when officers are confronting a person armed a deadly weapon. A knife is a deadly weapon.
with a
ralph, is that you?
Tazers kill too
HPD’s staff psychiatrist was frantically trying to load his couch into the SWAT van, but unfortunately arrived on the scene too late to properly analyze the perp.
yikes!
Allie, where are you? If this had happened in Hilo or Puna, you would be declaring…”Scary, scary place.”
allie is still sound asleep.
I’ll fill in for her: scary Kinau St…..yikes….1212 adds up to 6…times 3 is 666…yikes, even scarier.
Yikes: 6×3=18
giggle…
If “He gets angry very easily over small things”, I’m sure he’s certainly going to be upset that the responding officers actually opened fire on him. I mean….really!
Police have other means to control situations. Shooting another human being is ridiculous.
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OK OK so is it 1212 Kinau or 1221 Kinau ? it seems that the Photo Caption and the Article Differ with Each other.
Status quo for SA Staff Reporters! 😮