MARISA:
THE SUSPECT ACCUSED OF KILLING A
BIG ISLAND
POLICE OFFICER IS DEAD.
WE WERE FIRST WITH A BREAKING
NEWS PUSH
ALERT THAT JUSTIN WAIKI WAS
KILLED IN A
SHOOTOUT.
IT HAPPENED RIGHT THERE DOWN AT
SOUTH
POINT.
AN OFFICER WAS ALSO SHOT AND IS
IN STABLE
CONDITION.
BRIGETTE NAMATA JOINS US WITH
THE VERY
LATEST. BRIGETTE?
BRIGETTE:
AFTER SEVERAL DAYS ON THE RUN,
THE POLICE
UNION CONFIRMED JUSTIN WAIKI WAS
SHOT
AND KILLED, BUT NOT WITHOUT
INJURING YET ANOTHER POLICE
OFFICER.
HAWAII ISLAND POLICE SAYS THE
OFFICER IS IN
STABLE CONDITION.
HE IS BEING FLOWN TO HILO
MEDICAL CENTER FOR TREATMENT.
I'M TOLD 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.
ACCORDING TO SHOPO, WAIKI WAS IN
A VEHICLE WITH A FEMALE
PASSENGER WHEN
POLICE CAME UPON THEM. GUNFIRE
WAS EXCHANGED, WAIKI AND HIS
PASSENGER WERE SHOT, AND THE
OFFICER
WAS HIT MULTIPLE TIMES.
WE'RE TOLD THE OFFICER WAS HIT
IN THE
CHEST AREA.
I SPOKE WITH A MAN WHO WAS IN
THE AREA
AND CAME UPON PART OF THE SCENE.
CHUCKY BALUCAN: "I was headed
down towards South
Point Road, the cops told me to
get off the road cuz there's
something different. You don't
see that every day. It's
something to wake up to.
Anything can happen at any
moment, yeah."
BRIGETTE:
POINT ROAD
ON THE BIG ISLAND, THE AREA AT
KAMAOA ROAD WHILE THEY
INVESTIGATE.
BRIGETTE:
WE'RE CONTINUING TO MONITOR
WHAT'S
HAPPENING ON THE BIG ISLAND AND
WE'LL BE
SURE TO SHARE THAT WITH YOU. I
CALLED BIG ISLAND MAYOR HARRY
KIM, I'M TOLD HE IS ON THE WAY
TO HILO MEDICAL CENTER
AS WE SPEAK TO VISIT THE WOUNDED
OFFICER.
MARISA.
THANKS BRIGETTE .. AND MANOLO
MORALES
CONTINUES OUR TEAM COVERAGE WITH
REACTION .. MANOLO?
MANOLO:
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 tho 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 releived that at
least we got the shooter for
bronson i can imagine how
the big island officers feel coz
gotta be a relief for them and a
decompression for them"
MANOLO:
OFFICERS ARE STILL GRIEVING OVER
THE
DEATH OF BRONSON KALILOA WHO WAS
FATALLY SHOT BY WAIKI DURING A
TRAFFIC STOP ON TUESDAY NIGHT.
THE KALILOA FAMILY SENT US A
STATEMENT
AFTER THIS AFTERNOON'S SHOOTOUT:
THE FAMILY WOULD LIKE TO THANK
ALL THE
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:
IT'S STILL NOT CLEAR IF OFFICERS
RECEIVED A TIP
THAT LED TO FINALLY CATCHING
WAIKI OR IF
ANYONE WILL GET THAT REWARD. WE
WILL LET
YOU KNOW WHEN WE GET THAT
INFORMATION.
BACK TO YOU.
MARISA:
BIG ISLAND POLICE HAVE
IDENTIFIED THE TWO SUSPECTS
ARRESTED AFTER LAST NIGHT'S
POLICE SHOOTING... WHICH ENDED
IN
HARVEY DAMO JR. AND SHEVYLYN
KLAUS WERE
TAKEN INTO CUSTODY.
AUTHORITIES SAY THEY WERE
CHECKING ON A TIP ABOUT WAIKI
...WHEN THEY SPOTTED A VEHICLE
THAT TURNED OUT TO BE STOLEN.
Sherry Bird, Lieutenant of the
Area 2 Criminal Investigation
Section: "as they approached the
vehicle, they began
issuing verbal commands to the
occupants. The male
operator then drove the vehicle
toward the officers."
DAMO WAS TREATED AT THE HOSPITAL
FOR A
GUNSHOT WOUND... THEN TAKEN TO
THE POLICE
STATION.
BOTH SUSPECTS WERE BOOKED FOR
THEFT BUT
HAVE NOT YET BEEN CHARGED.
MARISA:
AGAIN WE FIRST TOLD YOU ABOUT
THE
SHOOTOUT THROUGH A PUSH ALERT.
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