His condition improved overnight from critical.

Prosecutors, meanwhile, will seek to charge the suspected shooter, a 17-year-old Waipahu man, as an adult with attempted murder and first-degree burglary. A closed-door detention hearing was held today at Hale Ho'omalu, the juvenile holding facility on Alder Street where the teenager is being held.

Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney Peter Carlisle said today that he plans to petition Family Court to waive its jurisdiction over the youth. "If it turns out to be a burglary turned into a shooting, this case is a perfect example of the potential danger of property crimes," Carlisle said.

A waiver hearing could be scheduled as early as Monday.

Eric Kawamoto interrupted a burglary yesterday and was shot inside his home on Puowaina Drive at about 4:30 p.m., police said. A family member today said Kawamoto was shot once on the left side of his chest but the bullet missed the heart. Doctors, however, did not remove the bullet because of the risk involved, the relative said.

The suspected shooter was captured at 5:21 p.m. in the stream behind Hawaii Baptist Academy, said police Lt. Jerry Inouye.

Inouye said HPD's helicopter led patrol units to the suspect's location. "That was instrumental for us," Inouye added.

Police recovered a .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol, which is believed to be the gun used in the shooting, on the school grounds.

Inouye said police responded to a 911 call about a man bleeding outside the front door of his home at 4:30 p.m. Arriving officers were given a description of the suspected shooter, who was seen jumping over a fence and running toward 'Auwaiolimu Street.

"Many people living in the area were calling 911 and giving us location (on the suspect)," Inouye said. "That, too, was helpful for us."

Inouye said the fleeing man jumped a fence and headed to the stream with a couple of officers in pursuit. The man was captured on the makai side of the stream in back of 1848 Nu'uanu Ave.

The Puowaina Drive home had been robbed once before and wrought-iron bars were put on all the windows as a result, a family member said.

A neighbor describing the scene yesterday to the family member said the burglar cut through the bars of one of the bedroom windows to enter the home.

Connie Knighton, who lives near the Kawamoto home, said she did not hear any shots, but heard shouts for help from across the street at about 4:30 p.m. When she went to Kawamoto's home, she found him lying in a pool of blood outside his house.

Knighton said Kawamoto was coherent and told her, "There's someone in my house and they've shot me."

The neighbor said she and about four or five other neighbors waited with the critically injured man until police arrived.

"He was coherent, he was talking," Police Officer Antonio Perry said of Kawamoto. "(He was) in pain, more in shock, I think."

Daylight burglaries are not uncommon in the area, which residents said has been hit by numerous break-ins in recent months. But a burglar shooting a resident is considered rare on O'ahu.

Neighbors described their community as a high-crime area, but said they don't recall any burglary-related shootings. Six months ago, six homes in the neighborhood were burglarized in one afternoon, and cars are routinely broken into and most of the homes have full security systems, they said.

"This was just one of those disgusting things that happens," Knighton said. "I'm praying that this man will pull through."

She said the neighbors support and help one another, but are at a loss on how to reduce crime in the area.