The Latest: Suspect arrested in volcano zone shooting
Source: Associated Press
Associated Press
Updated 8:05 pm, Thursday, May 31, 2018
HONOLULU (AP) The Latest on a shooting in a volcano evacuation zone on Hawaii's Big Island (all times local):
2:45 p.m.
Police on Hawaii's Big Island have arrested a man they say is seen on video shoving another man and firing a gun in a mandatory evacuation zone near the erupting Kilauea volcano.
Authorities said Thursday that 61-year-old John Hubbard of Leilani Estates has been charged with reckless endangering, terroristic threatening, robbery and other counts involving failure to obtain and register a firearm.
Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/The-Latest-Suspect-arrested-in-volcano-zone-12958871.php
Judi Lynn
(160,598 posts)A HAWAIIAN man was arrested on Tuesday after allegedly firing a gun on a neighbour who returned to the area to check his lava-threatened home, as tensions from the nearly month-long eruption of Kilauea appeared to have boiled over.
By MARTINA BET
PUBLISHED: 03:39, Fri, Jun 1, 2018 | UPDATED: 05:12, Fri, Jun 1, 2018
Ethan Edwards, 32, was surveying the area of his former home with a group of friends when he was approached by his neighbour John Hubbard, 61, according to reports.
It is alleged that an argument escalated and Mr Hubbard pointed a gun at Mr Edwards before firing shots in the sky, just above his head.
Mr Edwards posted on Facebook a video of the incident and wrote in the caption that he and his friends were all okay physically, just shaken psychologically.
Talmadge Magno, of Hawaii County Civil Defense, told Hawaii News: "They've got this live volcano in their backyard.
More:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/967879/Hawaii-volcano-eruption-update-man-john-hubbard-pulls-gun-neighbour-shooting
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,032 posts)mainer
(12,023 posts)Looks pretty haole to me.
blugbox
(951 posts)Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)like brandishing a weapon as well.
Didn't know they had them in Hawaii.
Midnight Writer
(21,787 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,156 posts)and this gun NUT went bonkers...over someone checking property out w/ all of the lava flows...
I watched this video and I was shocked and cringing along w/ the kid...
Is there no end to the craziness?