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Daughter identifies mother in murder-suicide on Hawaii island

PHOTOS COURTESY HAWAII POLICE DEPARTMENT AND HEITIARE KAPUA-LESLIE

Christopher Kapua-Allison, left, and Jolene Kapua-Allison. Heitiare Kapua-Leslie said she lost her mother, Jolene Kapua-Allison, to domestic violence and identified her mother’s estranged husband as Hawaii County police officer Christopher Kapua-Allison.

The daughter of a 54-year-old Mountain View woman said her mother was the victim in the Hawaii island case of a murder-suicide Sunday.

Heitiare Kapua-Leslie said she lost her mother, Jolene Kapua-Allison, to domestic violence.

Kapua-Leslie identified her mother’s estranged husband as Hawaii County police officer Christopher Kapua-Allison.

Police said they found the bodies of a man and a woman in a Pacific Paradise Gardens subdivision home. They said one of the two is a police officer.

They did not say how the pair died, nor did they identify them, saying the release of the names is pending notification of next of kin.

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