MEDIA RELEASE

Big Island police are investigating the death of a Kona woman.

Kona patrol officers responded to a 4:08 p.m. call Sunday (Dec. 12) from Kona Community Hospital reporting a 28-year-old Holualoa woman with a head injury who was in the process of being transferred to The Queen’s Medical Center on Oahu.

The case was originally classified as abuse of a family/household member.

At 4:39 p.m. Monday (Dec. 13), the woman, identified as Joy Macres, was pronounced dead at Queen’s.

Detectives from the Area II Criminal Investigations Section have reclassified the case to murder and are continuing the investigation.