HONOLULU (KHON2) -- Honolulu police opened a murder investigation after a man in his 30s was shot around 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 6 at the Waianae Small Boat Harbor.
Authorities located the suspectʻs car a few miles down Farrington Highway and brought the alleged shooter into custody after he fled on foot.
Harbor users who witnessed the shooting did not want to go on camera, but still described what happened.
"Pop, pop, pop, pop," said one witness, "was maybe about five or six shots is all I know. The shooter, yeah, he jumped in his truck and dug out."
Other witnesses said the driver did not take his time as he fled the scene.
"Burning rubber, screeching the tires and stuff like that and almost losing control on the way out," another witness said. "Went out towards the harbor entrance and then turned right and was headed towards Nanakuli side."
The suspect reportedly crashed the vehicle a few miles down the road in Maili and took on foot before he was arrested. The Nanakuli/Maili Neighborhood Board said crime is the top concern at their meetings.
"It's no longer in game rooms or in chicken fights. It's out here on our highway, at our public beaches, at our boat harbor and the city and state, They fail and continue to fail us in that," Samantha DeCorte said. "The only reason why they apprehended the suspect is because he crashed as he was headed out of the coast. If he didn't crash HPD would have never caught him."
DeCorte pointed out that the Waianae Police Station -- which DeCorte said is only open for processing -- lies right in between the crime scene and the site where the alleged shooter crashed.
"So, they would have definitely seen them passing right through had we had a fully functioning police station," she said. "I would absolutely identify what's happening here on the Waianae coast as an emergency situation and we need to treat it as such. I am going to be reaching out to our major to ask for more enhancement enforcement here on the Waianae, I mean what, do we have to call the National Guard?"
"The suspect fled on foot after crashing the vehicle and was taken into custody. Charges are pending," HPD said in a statement on social media."
"I'm still shaking, forgive me, but I'm still shaking," a witness said. "I'm trying to bring my mind back together."
The suspect, 25, has been arrested on suspicion of Murder in the Second Degree, according to HPDʻs Deena Thoemmes.