KAILUA-KONA — Hawaii Police have charged a Kailua-Kona man with attempted murder after assaulting a police officer outside a waterfront restaurant in Kailua Village.
On Tuesday, Kona patrol officers responded to a report of a disorderly man who was on the shoreline fronting Huggo’s On The Rocks on Kahakai Road. When they arrived on scene, officers found the suspect, later identified as Shannon Ke, 31, on a rocky ledge overlooking the ocean.
While making contact with him, police say, a confrontation ensued causing the responding officer and Ke to tumble into the water where the altercation continued.
Officers eventually took the man into custody.
On Thursday, Ke was charged with first-degree attempted murder, two counts of first-degree terroristic threatening, second-degree criminal property damage, resisting arrest and first-degree assault on police officer.
His bail was set at $342,000.
Police are seeking witnesses who were in the area and may have observed and/or recorded the confrontation to contact Detective Jerome Manuel at 326-4646, ext. 262, or via email at jerome.manuel@hawaiicounty.gov or call the department’s nonemergency number at 935-3311.