By Brandon Masuoka
Advertiser Staff Writer
A pregnant Hale‘iwa woman and her grandparents were fatally shot Saturday in Las Vegas and the woman’s brother has been arrested in connection with the slayings, said Las Vegas police.
Carrie Pattison-Adric, 32, and her grandparents Yoshio Kato, 82, and his wife, Sally, 75, were killed in the couple’s Las Vegas home, police said.
Pattison-Adric’s 21-year-old brother, Hanalei Dante Pattison of Las Vegas, faces three murder charges, police said.
Shots were fired following an argument between Pattison and his sister, police said.
Pattison-Adric’s niece Merci Warner said police told her family that her aunt was shot first, followed by her grandparents.
Warner said another relative, Pattison-Adric’s aunt, was inside the house and was not shot. The aunt ran to a neighbor’s house to call police.
Two shots were heard later, Warner was told.
Pattison surrendered after police surrounded the home, and the motive for the shooting is not known, police said.
Pattison’s sister had gone to visit her grandparents on Feb. 18 and was planning to learn about computers in Las Vegas, Warner said.
Warner, who learned about the shooting on Sunday, said Pattison sometimes telephoned relatives in Hawai‘i and would occasionally send "letters and stuff" to his sister.
Pattison-Adric was five months pregnant and worked at a local department store deli, Warner said. Her grandparents had moved to Las Vegas three years ago.
Warner said Pattison-Adric is a 1986 graduate from Waialua and is survived by a husband, Hanalei Adric, and two children, Sasha, 14, Kaena, 10.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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