Services scheduled for slain Big Island officer

Funeral services are scheduled for Saturday for Hawaii County police officer Bronson Kaimana Wei Mun Kaliloa, who was shot and killed last month during a traffic stop.

Kaliloa, 46, is the first Big Island police officer shot and killed in the line of duty. He leaves a wife, Casey Marie Kaliloa, two sons and a daughter.

The service is scheduled from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday at Hilo’s Afook-Chinen Civic Auditorium, with a public viewing of a display honoring Kaliloa following. Kaliloa’s body was cremated.

A funeral procession, which is limited to family and Puna District patrol officers, is then scheduled to leave the auditorium at 12:30 p.m. and head to the police sub-station in Pahoa, where the adjacent Hawaii County fire station is expected to shoot a water cannon in Kaliloa’s honor.

The procession is then scheduled to head back to Hilo and past the Hilo police station, ending at Homelani Memorial Park. A burial service is then planned at 2 p.m. and scheduled to include a 21-gun salute and a flyover of a Hawaii County Fire Department helicopter dropping rose petals, weather permitting.

Kaliloa, who joined the Hawaii Police Department in 2008, was honored as the Puna patrol officer of the year in 2014. He was shot and killed during a traffic stop on Highway 11 in Mountain View. The suspect, Justin Waiki, was killed four days later during a shootout at a police checkpoint in the Kau District.