Detectives have arrested a 34-year-old man for the murder of an unidentified man whose badly decomposed body was found over the weekend in the Hawaiian Paradise Park subdivision in Puna. ADVERTISING Detectives have arrested a 34-year-old man for the murder
Detectives have arrested a 34-year-old man for the murder of an unidentified man whose badly decomposed body was found over the weekend in the Hawaiian Paradise Park subdivision in Puna.
An autopsy conducted on the unidentified human remains ruled the death as a homicide, the Hawaii Police Department said late Tuesday. The medical examiner concluded the body was that of an adult male and that he died of gunshot wounds.
Detectives from the Area I Criminal Investigations Section are seeking dental records and are working with a forensic odontologist to confirm the victim’s identity.
At 2:35 p.m. Tuesday, detectives executed a search warrant at a home on East Palai Street in Hilo and arrested 34-year-old Eric James Fontes Jr., who has no permanent address, for an outstanding warrant for failure to appear.
At 4 p.m. Tuesday, Fontes was arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder, three counts of first-degree terroristic threatening, second-degree theft, ownership/possession prohibited, and use of a firearm in the commission of a separate felony.
He remains at the cellblock while detectives continue the investigation.
