KEALAKEKUA — A 39-year-old North Kohala man will serve a minimum 21 years in prison in connection with a nearly 20-hour standoff in 2015 in which the man’s girlfriend and a police officer were shot.
Macdon Thromman was sentenced Tuesday by 3rd Circuit Court Chief Judge Ronald Ibarra to life in prison with the possibility of parole after he serves at least 15 years in prison for second-degree attempted murder, the most serious charge of which a jury convicted the man in February. Consecutive to that sentence, Ibarra ordered Thromman to serve two separate five-year terms for first-degree terroristic threatening that each carry a mandatory minimum of three years.
Thromman was also sentenced to concurrently serve up to 20 years with a mandatory minimum of 10 years for kidnapping; 10 years with a mandatory minimum of five years for first-degree assault; five years with three years mandatory for each 0f two counts of first-degree terroristic threatening; and one year each for second-degree reckless endangering and failure to have permits to acquire a firearm.
Ibarra ordered Thromman, who was already in custody, to immediately begin serving his sentence. Thromman will receive time for credit served of 579 days.
Thromman was found guilty on Feb. 9 of attempted second-degree murder for shooting Hawaii Police Department Officer Ray Fukada; first-degree assault for the shooting and injuring of his girlfriend; kidnapping; second-degree reckless endangering; failure to have permits to acquire a firearm; and four counts of first-degree terroristic threatening, two of which were filed for threatening Heather’s parents and two for threatening Officer Dale Ku and Sgt. Paul Kim.
He was acquitted of two counts of first-degree attempted murder, one for shooting Fukada in the line of duty and the other filed after a bullet struck a police Bearcat from which Kim was deploying pepper spray-like oleoresin capsicum canisters. Jurors also found Thromman not guilty of second-degree attempted murder for shooting at Kim.
The jury, which comprised eight men and four women, took nearly two days to render a verdict following a several-week trial.
Thromman fired a .30-30 hunting rifle at his girlfriend, striking her in the right thigh during the July 13-14, 2015, incident at a residence off Akoni Pule Highway in Kapaau. He also shot a responding police officer, identified as Ray Fukada, in the right arm, as well as at other officers as they surrounded his home during the standoff.
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