Posted at 9:45 a.m., Tuesday, July 03, 2001

Man shot by police charged in earlier case

By Brandon Masuoka
Advertiser Staff Writer

A 19-year-old man who was shot by Big Island police last month was arrested yesterday and charged with felony offenses in connection with an earlier shooting in the Hawaiian Paradise Park subdivision in Puna, police said.

Keola Nathen Kanae of Hawaiian Paradise Park was charged with second-degree attempted murder, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony and 11 counts of first-degree terroristic threatening. He is being held at the Hawai'i Community Correctional Center without bail.

The charges result from a June 9 housewarming where Kanae allegedly fired several shots. A 19-year-old was hit, and a number of other people were in the area when the shots were fired, including children and infants, police said.

Five days later, Kanae was shot in a confrontation with uniformed police officers June 14 as he emerged from a car in which a couple allegedly had been kidnapped. Police said they shot Kanae after a gun was fired in the car.

Kanae's companion, Shaun "Mika" Thompson, 20, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

At the time of the confrontation, Kanae was on probation for a previous terroristic threatening conviction.