Kona shooting a suicide

Police detectives in Kona have completed their investigation into a March 31 fatal shooting and have reclassified the case from a murder to a suicide.

Final autopsy results determined that the cause of death was a gunshot wound to the head and that the manner of death was suicide.

In response to a 7:11 a.m. call on March 31, Kona Patrol officers found 62-year-old Marsha Mansker of Kailua-Kona unresponsive at a home on the 73-1200 block of Mahilani Drive in the Kona Highland subdivision.

Mansker’s 70-year-old husband, James, was arrested at the scene on suspicion of second-degree murder and then released the following day pending further investigation.