Hawai’i Island police have began an attempted murder investigation following a shooting in Puna on Monday, September 26. Puna patrol officers responded to a report of a 42 year-old man who had been shot. The man called police dispatch explaining that he had been shot and was driving himself to get treatment. HPD and HFD personnel met him in the parking lot of a convenience store in Mountain View.He was transported via ambulance to the Hilo Medical Center with potentially life-threatening injuries, was admitted and later upgraded to stable condition. While officers were responding to the initial call, police dispatch received another call from a male who reported he had been involved in a shooting incident where he was shot and returned fire outside his residence on Waimaka O Pele Road, in Mountain View. Police responded to the residence on Waimaka O Pele Road and arrested 40-year-old Shane Fann who was not injured.
A search warrant was drafted for Fann’s residence. Police are asking anyone with information on this incident, to contact the police department’s non-emergency number at (808) 935-3311, or Detective Casey Cabral at (808) 961-2384 or via email at Casey.Cabral@hawaiicounty.gov.
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