UPDATED 2:29 p.m.
Police has identified the person who died in Tuesday’s shooting in Keauhou as 46-year-old Joey Richmond of Kailua-Kona.
Shortly after 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday, police responded to a report of an unresponsive male party lying on the ground at Keauhou Kainaliu Beach Road, commonly known as “End of the World.”
Detectives from the Area II Criminal Investigation Section responded and are continuing the investigation, which has been classified as second-degree murder.
An autopsy conducted on Thursday found that Richmond died from multiple gunshots wounds to the body, and that manner of death is homicide.
Police ask that anyone who may have information regarding the incident to call Detective Kimmerlyn Makuakane-Jarrell at (808) 326-4646, ext. 262, via email at Kimmerlyn.Makuakane-Jarrell@hawaiicounty.gov or the police department’s nonemergency line at (808) 935-3311.
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Big Island police have initiated a murder investigation after a man was found with multiple gunshot wounds late Tuesday in Keauhou.
Responding to a 929 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 had found an unresponsive man laying face down in the roadway, police told West Hawaii Today Wednesday morning.
Police said the man appeared to have suffered multiple gunshot witnesses to the midsection. Police said the man was of Caucasian decent and between the ages of 35 and 45 years old.
The victim’s identify 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.
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.