07-30-2013, 06:25 AM
Heads up, this guy has a Puna address, last seen up Mauna Kea Visitor Center area. Chopper One is headed out. He's supposedly armed with a gun, waved it at people from the car he crashed. Damn. [
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FYI: (*Note - Credit to Big Island Now)
http://bigislandnow.com/2013/07/30/woman...collision/
Police are looking for a 2007 white Honda sedan following a carjacking this morning on Kilauea Avenue in Hilo.
The incident started when a 32-year-old Kurtistown woman was driving toward downtown on her way to work.
At about 7:45 a.m., a car ran through a stop sign from West Ohea Street and ran into the side of the vehicle directly in front of the woman. The resulting collision forced her and other cars behind her to stop.
The woman told Big Island Now that her first response was to grab her cellphone to take a picture of the crash.
But then she noticed the driver of the vehicle that had run the stop sign climb out of the window of his car.
The suspect approached her vehicle, opened the passenger side door and got into her Honda, saying, “They’re trying to kill me, they’re trying to kill me.”
At about that time, police began arriving at the scene and the man reached over toward the woman, at which point she got out of the vehicle. The man then climbed into the driver’s seat.
Meanwhile, police approached the vehicle, which was still running and in park, and pointed weapons into the windows, ordering the man to exit the vehicle.
Instead the man put the vehicle into gear and maneuvered his way around the officers and fled down Kilauea.
The suspect said she did not see the man with any weapons and was unhurt in the incident.
“I’m just so glad I didn’t have my kids in the car,” she said, noting that at that time of the day she often has her 4-year-old son strapped into a car seat in the back seat to be dropped off at school.
The victim described the suspect as a local man in his late 20s or early 30s, with tattoos. She said he was shirtless and wearing shorts and slippers.
The vehicle, a four-door sedan, had license number HHN 082.
Police said the vehicle was last seen on Saddle Road.
Police said the occupant may be armed and dangerous and should not be approached.
If seen, call 911, police said.
!]FYI: (*Note - Credit to Big Island Now)
http://bigislandnow.com/2013/07/30/woman...collision/
Police are looking for a 2007 white Honda sedan following a carjacking this morning on Kilauea Avenue in Hilo.
The incident started when a 32-year-old Kurtistown woman was driving toward downtown on her way to work.
At about 7:45 a.m., a car ran through a stop sign from West Ohea Street and ran into the side of the vehicle directly in front of the woman. The resulting collision forced her and other cars behind her to stop.
The woman told Big Island Now that her first response was to grab her cellphone to take a picture of the crash.
But then she noticed the driver of the vehicle that had run the stop sign climb out of the window of his car.
The suspect approached her vehicle, opened the passenger side door and got into her Honda, saying, “They’re trying to kill me, they’re trying to kill me.”
At about that time, police began arriving at the scene and the man reached over toward the woman, at which point she got out of the vehicle. The man then climbed into the driver’s seat.
Meanwhile, police approached the vehicle, which was still running and in park, and pointed weapons into the windows, ordering the man to exit the vehicle.
Instead the man put the vehicle into gear and maneuvered his way around the officers and fled down Kilauea.
The suspect said she did not see the man with any weapons and was unhurt in the incident.
“I’m just so glad I didn’t have my kids in the car,” she said, noting that at that time of the day she often has her 4-year-old son strapped into a car seat in the back seat to be dropped off at school.
The victim described the suspect as a local man in his late 20s or early 30s, with tattoos. She said he was shirtless and wearing shorts and slippers.
The vehicle, a four-door sedan, had license number HHN 082.
Police said the vehicle was last seen on Saddle Road.
Police said the occupant may be armed and dangerous and should not be approached.
If seen, call 911, police said.