The District Court has granted Prosecutorsʻ motion to hold 24 year-old Chito K. Asuncion, who is charged in connection with two separate murder incidents in Kona and two separate attempted murder incidents in Hilo, without bail.

Asuncion appeared in Kona District Court yesterday, where the Court granted Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Chase Murray’s bail denial request.  He is scheduled to return to Kona District Court on July 20, 2022 for Return of Examiners’ Reports Regarding Defendant’s Examination for Fitness.

As the Complaint alleges, Asuncion is charged with two counts of Murder in the Second Degree (intentionally or knowingly cause the death of another person), two counts of Attempted Murder in the Second Degree (intentionally engaged in conduct, which under the circumstances as he believed them to be, constituted a substantial step in a course of conduct intended or known to be certain by him to cause the death of another person), and a single count of Attempted Murder in the First Degree (intentionally engaged in conduct, which under the circumstances as he believed them to be, constituted a substantial step in a course of conduct intended or known to be certain by him to cause the death of more than one person in the same or separate incidents). Attempted Murder in the First Degree carries a penalty of life in prison without the possibility of parole. Murder in the Second Degree carries a penalty of life in prison with the possibility of parole.

The charges are merely allegations, and the Defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

HPD Photo