Police end standoff by firing bean bags

• Gunfight increase concerns police

By Eloise Aguiar
Advertiser Staff Writer

KANE'OHE — Police arrested a 43-year-old man after a standoff that lasted several hours in Ahuimanu yesterday and ended when the man was shot with bean bags as he held a knife, according to a police report.

The report did not indicate how many bean bags were fired at the man.

The suspect was taken to Castle Medical Center where he was treated and released, police said.

No one else was injured in the incident that started at Kualoa Regional Park at about 10:45 a.m. when a 28-year-old Mililani woman confronted the suspect about an incident involving her daughter, police said.

The man threatened the woman with a knife and she backed off, police said. He then fled in his car, but she followed, police said.

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.