A 21-year-old Big Island woman was wounded in her back when shots were fired early yesterday morning in the parking lot of Lulu's nightclub in Kailua, Kona, police said.

The Honomu woman was taken to Kona Community Hospital. Her condition was not disclosed.

Other people in the parking lot subdued a 21-year-old Kailua, Kona, man holding a .25-caliber semi-automatic pistol, police said. He was arrested for investigation of two counts of reckless endangering and one count of a firearms offense.

Police responded to the sound of gunshots at Coconut Grove Marketplace at 1:48 a.m. Police said the victim and the suspect did not know each other.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call Kona police investigators at (808) 326-4646, ext. 262.

Crash sparks fire, leaves 2 injured

A boy and a woman were in critical condition last night following a two-vehicle car crash on the Big Island that sparked a fire that burned more than 50 acres of brush.

The woman was taken by helicopter to Kona Hospital, while the boy was flown to North Hawai'i Hospital.

Fire Battalion Chief Curtis Matsui didn't know the details of the crash. "All we know is that one vehicle left the roadway and caught fire," he said.

Matsui said at least four people — two adults and two juveniles — were in the two vehicles. The crash was reported at 1:30 p.m. in the Waikoloa Village area on the north side of Highway 190.

Man arrested in kidnapping

Police arrested a 27-year-old Palama man yesterday on suspicion of kidnapping, attempted extortion and leaving the scene of an accident that resulted in substantial injury for allegedly demanding $100 from a 27-year-old woman, terrorizing the woman and her 3-year-old daughter, and refusing to let the two out of his car.

Police said the woman eventually jumped out of the moving car and was not injured, although one of the girl's legs was broken in the incident, which began at Ala Moana Beach park about 1 p.m.

The woman told police she and her daughter were in the car with the man, who demanded $100. After she refused, the man began to drive hazardously, running red lights, aiming his car at other vehicles and heading toward pedestrians, the woman said.

She said she jumped from the car with her daughter about an hour later in Kalihi and call police.