A DAYS-LONG MANHUNT ENDED ON
THE BIG ISLAND
TODAY WITH FUGITIVE JUSTIN
WAI-KI KILLED BY POLICE.
THE POLICE OFFICERS' UNION TELLS
US...AUTHORITIES WERE IN THE
PROCESS OF ARRESTING
WAI-KI..WHEN A SHOOTOUT OCCURRED
AND HE WAS KILLED.
AN OFFICER WAS ALSO SHOT
MULTIPLE TIMES DURING THE
SHOOTOUT...AND IS IN
STABLE CONDITION.
JOE:
THIS ALL STARTED TUESDAY NIGHT,
WHEN
THE 33-YEAR-OLD SUSPECT SHOT AND
KILLED BIG ISLAND OFFICER
BRONSON
KALILOA..PROMPTING AN
ISLAND-WIDE MANHUNT.
BRIGETTE NAMATA JOINS US WITH
THE LATEST.
BRIGETTE?
BRIG:
AFTER SEVERAL DAYS ON THE RUN,
THE POLICE
UNION CONFIRMED JUSTIN WAIKI WAS
SHOT AND
KILLED, BUT NOT WITHOUT INJURING
A POLICE
OFFICER.
THE WOUNDED OFFICER, A SPECIAL
RESPONSE
MEDICAL
CENTER.
THE SHOOT-OUT HAPPENED AROUND
TWO FORTY THIS AFTERNOON, IN THE
SOUTH POINT, KAU
AREA, WHICH IS THE VERY SOUTHERN
MOST TIP OF
THE BIG ISLAND.
POLICE SAY WAIKI WAS IN AN S-U-V
POLICE CAME UPON THEM.
GUNFIRE WAS EXCHANGED, WAIKI AND
HIS PASSENGER WERE SHOT, AND THE
OFFICER
WAS HIT MULTIPLE TIMES.
WE'RE TOLD THE SERGEANT WAS HIT
IN THE
CHEST AREA BUT HE WAS WEARING A
BULLETPROOF
VEST.
THREE OTHER INDIVIDUALS, WHO ARE
SUSPECTED IN HELPING WAIKI EVADE
POLICE WERE
ARRESTED AT THE SCENE.
I SPOKE WITH A MAN WHO WAS IN
THE AREA AND
CAME UPON PART OF THE SCENE. HE
CALLED IT CHAOTIC - BUT IS
RELIEVED WAIKI
WAS CAUGHT.
CHUCKY BALUCAN: "Much more safe,
eh? No need worry
about people being shot or run
down by this guy. At least I
know my family is safe and I can
sleep."
CHUCKY BALUCAN: "It's just
devastating. Now more
people's wounded. I know they
got him, but still yet more
people's lives on the lines,
yeah. So it's hard."
BRIG:
POLICE HAVE CLOSED OFF SOUTH
POINT ROAD ON THE BIG ISLAND,
THE AREA AT KAMAOA ROAD WHILE
THEY INVESTIGATE.
BRIG:
POLICE SAY THE WOMAN WITH WAIKI
WAS HIDING IN THE S-U-V WHEN SHE
GOT SHOT. WE DO NOT KNOW
HER RELATION TO WAIKI AT THIS
TIME.
I CALLED BIG ISLAND MAYOR HARRY
KIM, I'M
TOLD HE WILL BE AT HILO MEDICAL
CENTER TO VISIT
THE WOUNDED OFFICER.
MARISA.
JOE:
THE BIGGEST CONCERN FOR OFFICERS
NOW IS THE
HEALTH OF THE OFFICER WHO WAS
SHOT BY THE
SUSPECT.
MANOLO MORALES HAS REACTION FROM
THE
POLICE OFFICERS UNION. MANOLO?
MANOLO:
JOE, HERE AT THE SHOPO
HEADQUARTERS WHERE EVERYONE WAS
MONITORING THE
SITUATION. THERE WAS RELIEF THAT
THE SUSPECT
IS NO LONGER ON THE LOOSE BUT
GRAVE CONCERN FOR THE INJURED
OFFICER.
SHOPO President Malcolm Lutu:
"even though we're an island
away we're still one body of
police officers for us..we're
not working up there but for us
there i can tell in the
board room that everybody is
relieved that at least we got
imagine how the big island
officers feel coz gotta be a
relief for them and a
decompression for them"
SHOPO President Malcolm Lutu:
just like to thank all the fed
agencies..ATF, marshalls,
FBI..that stepped up and helped
our county officers on the big
island to help locate this
fugitive. We're all the same
blood. law enforcement
is law enforcement whether
you're federal, county, state
MANOLO:
THE
DEATH OF BRONSON KALILOA WHO WAS
FATALLY SHOT BY WAIKI DURING A
TRAFFIC STOP
ON TUESDAY NIGHT.
THE KALILOA FAMILY SENT US A
SHOOTOUT:
THE FAMILY WOULD LIKE TO
RESPONDERS WHO HAVE PUT THEIR
LIVES AT RISK
TO HELP BRING US CLOSURE. OUR
LOVE AND
THOUGHTS GO TO THE INJURED
OFFICER AND HIS FAMILY AND WE
WILL PRAY THAT THE LORD PROTECT
AND HEAL HIM.
MANOLO:
OFFICER KALILOA WAS A TEN YEAR
VETERAN OF THE HAWAII COUNTY
POLICE DEPARTMENT. HE
WAS NAMED OFFICER OF THE YEAR
FOR THE PUNA
DISTRICT IN 2014.
HE HAD A WIFE AND THREE YOUNG
CHILDREN.
JOE?
JOE:
AGAIN, THIS ALL STARTED
TUESDAY NIGHT, WHEN WAIKI SHOT
AND KILLED OFFICER KALILOA
DURING A TRAFFIC STOP ON HIGHWAY
11.
WAIKI WAS WANTED ON AN
OUTSTANDING, NO-BAIL
WARRANT.
THE MANHUNT PROMPTED BIG ISLAND
POLICE TO SET UP AN
AROUND-THE-CLOCK TASK FORCE TO
FOLLOW
UP ON LEADS.
MULTIPLE AGENCIES CAME FORWARD
TO ISSUE REWARDS FOR WAIKI'S
ARREST AND
CONVICTION...THE TOTAL REACHING
32-THOUSAND
DOLLARS.
AND LAST NIGHT..AS POLICE
FOLLOWED UP ON
A TIP RELATED TO WAIKI, A MAN
AND A WOMAN IN A
PICKUP TRUCK DROVE TOWARD
OFFICERS WHO
OPENED FIRE.
SHEVYLYN
KLAUS..BOTH 25..WERE ARRESTED.
THEY HAVE
NOT BEEN CHARGED YET...AND IT'S
UNCLEAR WHETHER THEY'RE
CONNECTED TO WAIKI.