Big Island police have initiated a murder investigation after a man was found with multiple gunshot wounds late Tuesday in Keauhou.
Big Island police have initiated a murder investigation after a man was found with multiple gunshot wounds late Tuesday in Keauhou.
Responding to a 9:29 p.m. report, Hawaii Police Department officers arrived at the bottom of the road to End of the World to learn that a family was fishing at the site and had found an unresponsive man laying face down in the roadway, police told West Hawaii Today Wednesday morning.
The man appeared to have suffered multiple gunshot witnesses to the midsection, according to police. Police said the man was of Caucasian descent and between the ages of 35 and 45 years old. The victim’s identity is being withheld pending notification of next of kin.
Witnesses reportedly saw a silver- or gray-colored BMW leaving the area at a high rate of speed and head south on the Mamalahoa Bypass at the time of the reported shooting.
Later, police responded to a report of a vehicle on fire off Highway 160. There, they found a silver BMW on fire.
The investigation is continuing.
