Detectives with Hawai‘i Police Department’s Area II Criminal Investigation Section arrested and charged 49-year-old Bradford Borum of Ocean View with an array of offenses, including terroristic threatening and criminal property damage following a shooting in Ka‘ū.
On November 11, Ka‘ū patrol officers responded to a Hawaiian Ocean View Estates subdivision residence where the victim reported that a few minutes prior to calling police, he was shot at while seated within his own vehicle. The victim further told police he did not sustain any injuries, although his vehicle sustained damages consistent with being shot at.
Responding officers determined that prior to reporting the incident, the victim went to the Trade Wind Boulevard property in an attempt to contact his ex-girlfriend. Upon arriving, a heated verbal altercation ensued between the victim and his ex-girlfriend.
Borum, who is in a relationship with the woman, attempted to intervene and then requested that the victim leave the property. He then retrieved a firearm and fired several shots towards the victim.
Shortly after the incident was reported, the victim’s ex-girlfriend contacted police and told them the victim came over to her current boyfriend’s house wanting to discuss the visitation of a child that the woman and the victim have in common. She further related that Borum attempted to intervene and as a result he shot at the victim’s vehicle.
On Monday, HPD officers contacted Borum, who surrendered an unregistered handgun and ammunition and was taken into custody. A search of the property at the shooting location resulted in the recovery of several spent casings believed to have been discharged from the handgun that was also recovered.
After conferring with the County Prosecutor’s Office, Borum was charged with the following offenses:
- First-degree criminal property damage
- First-degree terroristic threatening
- Second-degree reckless endangering
- Permit to acquire a firearm
- Mandatory registration of a firearm
During the course of investigation, police determined that the victim had gone to Borum’s residence unannounced and uninvited. As a result, a counter complaint was generated and that case will be forwarded to the County Prosecutor’s Office for their review.
Anyone with information relative to this investigation is encouraged to contact Detective Kohara at (808) 960-3118, or via email at donovan.kohara@hawaiicounty.gov.
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