Ex-police officer gets jail over gun incident
HONOLULU POLICE DEPARTMENT
Anson Kimura
Former Honolulu police Sgt. Anson Kimura is going to jail for two months for accidentally shooting a woman in a bar while off duty.
The 60-day jail term is part of a four-year probation sentence state Circuit Judge Colette Garibaldi handed Kimura on Wednesday for second-degree assault. Kimura, 57, pleaded guilty in August to recklessly causing serious bodily injury.
Kimura remains free on $5,000 bail. Garibaldi is giving him until Monday to turn himself in.
She also ordered Kimura to perform 200 hours of community service and to stay away from the South King Street bar where the shooting occurred, and prohibited him from contacting the victim.
Honolulu police said Kimura and the woman, an employee of the bar, were friends, and that Kimura accidentally shot her in the stomach in April 2015. Kimura, a 25-year Honolulu Police Department veteran, retired from HPD the following month in the midst of the department’s internal investigation into the shooting.
Deputy Prosecutor Ayla Weiss said the bullet is lodged in the woman’s lower vertebrae and will remain there for the rest of her life.
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Kimura’s lawyer, Tommy Otake, said Kimura was checking his personal weapon, a revolver, to see whether it was loaded. He said Kimura partially squeezed the trigger, then pulled back the hammer to see whether there was a round in front of it.
“He held it, pulled down on the trigger and was slowly going to put the hammer back, but it slipped and it fired,” Otake said.
Weiss said the victim told police that Kimura’s colleagues tried to persuade him to put the gun away before it discharged.
HPD policy prohibits officers from possessing firearms while drinking alcohol.
The department says an internal investigation into the actions of the officers who were with Kimura at the bar and those who responded to the shooting is still pending.
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“Kimura’s lawyer, Tommy Otake, said Kimura was checking his personal weapon, a revolver, to see whether it was loaded. He said Kimura partially squeezed the trigger, then pulled back the hammer to see whether there was a round in front of it.”
It sounds like Mr Kimura either has absolutely no idea how a revolver works, or he is lying about what happened.
Or had a few too many drinks. Guns mixed with alcohol never is a good combination.
Guns don’t belong in a bar.
There are many places where both law enforcement and law abiding citizens have firearms in a bar. The gun isn’t the problem, it’s when 1D10T is allowed to carry a gun (in a bar or anywhere else) is when we have problems.
I wonder who he was getting ready to shoot in the bar? Gotta be a d@m good reason to be “checking” to see if it were “loaded”. Kind of like the officer who shot himself in the head at the BBQ a couple of years back.
If it isn’t already in department policy, it should be written that the firearm doesn’t break leather unless it will be used to engage a threat. Think about it, Target restroom incident as well as this one could have been prevented had the firearm stayed in the holster.
Well, at least he had the good sense to not peer down the gun barrel.
That would have been better. At least that way he would have only hurt himself instead of someone else.
I agree. Poor lady will live the rest of her life pooping into a bag. I imagine the civil lawsuits will be in the millions, and because he was employed by HPD and carrying under HPD policies, Honolulu taxpayers will be footing the bill. 🙁
His colleagues tried to get him to put the gun away but he kept playing with it and the bartender got shot. He’s lucky the judge didn’t give him more time for being stupid.
“HPD policy prohibits officers from possessing firearms while drinking alcohol” Oh, Oh this is new light on the Mcdonalds Deedy shooting my agent so and so he may not be from HPD but a law is a law.
HPD Policy isn’t “law”. Deedy would have to abide by DSS policy. If he was in violation of the policy at the time of the incident, then he’ll suffer the consequences. However, at issue now is the criminal charges that are still unresolved.
can it with deedy
I was surprised to learn at the time of the shooting that HPD didn’t prohibited off duty carrying of firearms while drinking alcoholic beverages…..every police agency that I know of prohibits this because incidents such as this have previously occurred and even if policy didn’t prohibit carrying….common sense should have…this incident was entirely preventable…but due to the stupidity of this cop a bystander was shot but was fortunate not to been killed…….