Police are seeking the public’s assistance in finding a 20-year-old Hilo man wanted for questioning in connection with a New Year’s morning stabbing in Puna.
Police are seeking the public’s assistance in finding a 20-year-old Hilo man wanted for questioning in connection with a New Year’s morning stabbing in Puna.
Travis Nakashima is described as Micronesian, 5 feet 5 inches tall, 140 pounds with brown hair and black eyes.
At 7:45 a.m., Jan. 1, a Nevada man visiting relatives was taken by private vehicle to the Hilo Medical Center Emergency Room after being assaulted in the Ainaloa Subdivision.
The 25-year-old victim told police that during the early morning hours of Jan. 1, he and a group of people were on King Kamehameha Drive when he got into an altercation with one of the men in the group. As a result, the victim sustained stab wounds and a fractured skull.
The man was treated for a fractured skull, a cut to his face and a stab wound to his upper back and was later released from the Hilo Medical Center. The incident is being investigated as a second-degree assault.
Witnesses or anyone with information on Nakashima’s whereabouts is asked to call the police nonemergency line at 935-3311 or contact Detective Grant Todd at 961-2381 or Grant.Todd@hawaiicounty.gov.
Those who prefer anonymity can call Crime Stoppers at 961-8300.
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