Shooting at Longs Pearl City leaves one dead, one injured

By Karen Blakeman and Peter Boylan
Advertiser Staff Writers

One person was dead and another injured last night after a shooting in the parking lot at Longs Drug Store in Pearl City.

Police and Emergency Medical Services teams were called to the scene shortly before 10 p.m.

They found two men in the parking lot, both of them with multiple gunshot wounds, said EMS district chief Mandy Shiraki.

EMS crews took one man to Kapi'olani Medical Center at Pali Momi in extremely critical condition, Shiraki said. Police later said that man was dead.

EMS delivered the second man to The Queen's Medical Center in serious condition.

A witness to the shooting, Robert Fernandez, said he and his wife had pulled into the parking lot at about 9:50 p.m. and noticed about five young men talking in the parking lot, near Kamehameha Highway.

As he walked to Longs, Fernandez said, he heard one of the men begin to scream: "Help me, help me, help me."

Immediately after the screams, Fernandez said, he heard a quick succession of about four or five shots.

He turned and saw one of the men jump into a red pickup truck and drive away. Two other men drove off in a car that may have been a Jetta, he said.

A third car, a white Honda, which appeared to have belonged to the shooting victims, remained behind.

One of the victims, a man who had been wounded in the arm, ran away but came back a few moments later.

Fernandez said a second man was left lying on the ground in the parking lot, and he went to him to try to help. The man had been shot in the face, he said. He did not have a pulse.

As homicide detectives sifted through the parking lot for evidence, a man named Fred Domingo arrived and said the white Honda Accord belonged to his son.

He said authorities called him, and that he was told his son, Winston Domingo, was alive and in the hospital.

Homicide detectives continued to investigate late into the night.