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An Oahu grand jury returned an indictment against a 52-year-old Waipahu man on attempted murder charges for allegedly shooting up the front of his neighbor’s town house.
Scott D. Vidinha was indicted Wednesday on one count of first-degree attempted murder, four counts of second-degree attempted murder, five counts of use of a firearm in commission of a felony, and first-degree reckless endangering.
Vidinha was in custody Thursday at Oahu Community Correctional Center in lieu of $1 million bail.
On Saturday afternoon on Kahakea Street in Kunia, Vidinha allegedly approached two boys headed into their apartment, made sexual comments to one and asked the other to come to his house to drink. The boys’ mother told Vi-dinha after the encounter she was going to call police.
Vidinha went into his apartment but returned to the area, where he took off his clothes and stood naked. Police said he made gun gestures with his finger, saying he was going to shoot the family through the wall.
After the mother called police, Vidinha allegedly retrieved a rifle from his apartment, and as the boys and their parents hid, police said, they heard gunshots coming into their home and “glass flying and shattering everywhere.” A bullet grazed the mother’s arm while she was pushing her kids into the bathroom.
A neighbor told police that Vidinha emptied three magazines of ammunition by firing the gun while walking from his apartment to the family’s unit.
