Updated at 11:35 a.m., Tuesday, June 5, 2001

Police end standoff by firing bean bags

• Gunfight increase concerns police

By Eloise Aguiar
Advertiser Staff Writer

K¸NE'OHE — A 43-year-old man remained in police custody today after a standoff that lasted several hours in Ahuimanu yesterday and ended when the knife-wielding man was shot with bean bags, police said.

They said he was struck by two bean bags on the leg and taken to Castle Medical Center, where he was treated and released.

No one else was injured in the incident that started at Kualoa Regional Park at about 10:45 a.m.

Police said a 28-year-old Mililani woman confronted the suspect about an incident involving her daughter. He threatened her with a knife and she backed off, police said. He then fled in his car, but she followed.

Both drove to the 47-500 block of Alawiki Street, where the suspect refused to leave his automobile and police were called.

The police tried to negotiate for several hours. The standoff ended when police shot the suspect, who was holding a knife, police said.

Police arrested the man, who is unemployed and has no local address, on suspicion of terroristic threatening. He has not been charged in the case, police said.