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Hawaiʻi Island police are investigating an officer-involved shooting Thursday afternoon (July 21) in the Hawaiian Paradise Park subdivision.

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Big Island police have identified a Puna man who died Thursday (November 29) from injuries he sustained in a motor vehicle/motorcycle crash at the intersection of Route 130 and Leilani Avenue as 65-year-old Bo Lozoff of Kalapana.

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Hawaii 24/7 Staff Two men died and four other people were injured Sunday when a pick-up truck and a sport utility vehicle collided head-on along Hawaii Belt Road near Paipakou. The two men who died were the drivers of the vehicles involved in the crash. Emergency crews were alerted shortly before 7:30 p.m. Sunday to […]

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Big Island police have identified the man who died Thursday (October 11) from a two-vehicle crash on Highway 11 in front of Hirano Store as 57-year-old John K. Isabel Jr.

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A 67-year-old Hilo man died Monday (August 29) from injuries he sustained in a one-vehicle crash on Macadamia Road, 1.6 miles east of Hawaiʻi Belt Road (Route 11). The victim was identified as Reginald N. Iwasaki of a Hilo address.

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A 22-year-old California man died Monday after being swept into the ocean in Puna on Sunday. The victim has been identified as Paul Tam-Mai of Sunnyvale, California. Tam-Mai was climbing on a rocky cliff at the end of Paradise Drive in the Hawaiian Paradise Park subdivision around 3 p.m. Sunday (July 10) when a wave […]

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A motorcycle rider in his late 20s to early 30s was thrown down an embankment after his motorcycle first struck the vehicle then a guardrail. The rider was found after a brief search and was unresponsive. The rider was pronounced dead at Kona Community Hospital after efforts to revive him were unsuccessful.

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Big Island police are investigating the Christmas Day discovery of a body in West Hawai’i as a coroner’s inquest. At 7:45 a.m. Saturday (December 25), police and fire personnel responded to a report of a body at a Waikoloa resort. The body was identified as 50-year-old Aron Abrams of Los Angeles. An autopsy to determine […]

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MEDIA RELEASE A 21-year-old Kailua-Kona man died Sunday (December 19) from injuries he received in a two-vehicle crash on Queen Kaahumanu Highway at the 121-mile marker in Kailua-Kona. The victim was identified as Brian Anthony Margate of a Kailua-Kona address. Responding to a 7:06 p.m. call, Kona patrol officers determined that a 20-year-old Kailua-Kona woman […]

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MEDIA RELEASE A 26-year-old Kamuela man died Wednesday (November 17) from injuries he received in a motorcycle crash on Kohala Ranch Road, 152 feet north of Kanaloa Drive in North Kohala. The victim was identified as Patrick K. Bowles, of a Kamuela address. Responding to a 8:51 p.m. call, North Kohala patrol officers determined that […]

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MEDIA RELEASE A Kona man is in police custody in connection with a double stabbing Tuesday in Kailua-Kona, including one that was fatal. Kona patrol officers responded to the stabbings reported at 7:09 p.m. at a condominium in the Seaview subdivision in Kailua-Kona, where they determined that two men had been stabbed during an altercation […]

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A 20-year-old man and a 16-year-old boy are dead following a three-vehicle crash late Saturday on the Palani Road that may have involved racing. The accident happened about 11:53 p.m., when a 1997 Honda two-door sedan driven by the 20-year-old was traveling east on Palani Road and possibly racing with another vehicle when it lost […]

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MEDIA RELEASE A 62-year-old Colorado man died Thursday, Jan. 14 from injuries he sustained in a single motorcycle crash on Akaka Falls Road in the area of the 1 mile-marker. The victim was identified as Herman A. Dietrich, of Denver, Colo. Responding to a 2:17 p.m. call, South Hilo patrol officers determined the victim was […]

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Media releases compiled by Karin Stanton/Hawaii247.com Contributing Editor An autopsy has determined a Kona man was killed in a motorcycle accident in Colorado nearly two weeks ago. The Larimer County Medical Examiner’s Office conducted the autopsy on a body found in Cash la Poudre River about a mile downriver from where witnesses reported seeing a […]

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