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Mililani highway shooting victim dies

Peter Boylan

A 37-year-old man who was shot while driving on Kamehameha Highway in Mililani early Thursday died Tuesday morning.

“The victim’s condition declined and the pronouncement of his death was made,” according to the Honolulu Police Department.

The case was reclassified to second-degree murder at 8 a.m. Monday. Police are still searching for the shooters and a news conference is scheduled for Wednesday.

Twenty-five people have been murdered on Oahu this year, compared with 22 through November 2022.

The city Department of the Medical Examiner told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser that the 37-year-old’s identity would be released Wednesday. On Thursday, the man was taken to a hospital in critical condition after he was shot multiple times while driving on the highway in Mililani.

At 12:14 a.m., the man was driving down Kamehameha Highway “when he was shot at multiple times” near Kipapa Street.

Emergency Medical Services technicians provided “lifesaving stabilizing treatments such as a breathing tube for a critical patient found in his vehicle with suspected gunshot wounds,” according to the city Emergency Services Department.

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