Officers this morning examine a white car in which a man was shot and killed by police today following a high-speed chase. Richard Ambo • The Honolulu Advertiser

The shooting occurred at about 8:10 a.m. near the intersection of Kauhale and Mikalemi streets as the man attempted to flee in a car stolen from a family waiting to take children to school, police said.

The identity of the victim, who was pronounced dead at the scene, was not released. Some streets in the area were closed to traffic during the investigation.

The incident began around 7 a.m. when police were called on a report of a suspicious vehicle at Moanalua Golf Course, said Honolulu Police Chief Lee Donohue. A witness identified the man to police, who confirmed that he had three outstanding warrants.

Police officials said the patrol officers ordered the man to stop, but he took off from the golf course. They pursued him through Salt Lake but called off the chase when the man began driving hazardously, police said.

Donohue said Pearl City officers knew the suspect and the area he frequented, and found him at about 8 a.m. at a home at Pamoho Place in 'Aiea.

Patrol officers confronted the man there, but then he fled through the neighborhood to the Kauhale-Mikalemi street area.

One neighbor, Barbara Visaya, said she saw the man running through her yard while she looked through her kitchen window. She then watched him enter another house a few doors down, where a car idled in the garage. A 5-year-old child waited near the car when the man got into the car, she said.

"The scariest part was the girl was near the car before the man decided to back out," Visaya said. "I'm just glad she didn't get hurt."

Officers cruising the neighborhood in pursuit of the man heard the child's mother, who began screaming, said homicide Lt. Bill Kato.

"What drew the attention of the officers to the house was the screaming of the woman," Kato said.

Visaya saw two officers draw their weapons and point them at the man, who began to back out of the garage. They ordered the man three times to stop, she added.

One officer attempted to reach in and turn off the ignition, while the other tried to enter the car from the passenger's side, Kato said.

The driver backed out suddenly, and the door flung open, pinning the officer to the garage wall, Kato said.

"The car was moving at a fairly high rate of speed because of the skid marks in the garage," he said.

At about this moment, he said, each of the officers fired a shot at point-blank range.