A police officer shot and wounded a man behind the wheel of a fleeing car as it dragged another officer down Cooke Street yesterday morning, police Maj. Clayton Kau said.

The shooting took place at Cooke Street and Kapi'olani Boulevard, Kau said. The suspected driver of the car escaped a police chase but later turned himself in at Kapi'olani Medical Center at Pali Momi, Kau said. He was in good condition yesterday at another Honolulu hospital, Kau said.

The 29-year-old suspect will be arrested when he is released from the hospital, Kau said. The case is being treated as attempted murder in the first degree.
Kau said that events leading up to the shooting began at 11:19 a.m., when an anonymous woman reported that a man was sleeping in a car on Cooke Street.
The first officer to arrive found a man sleeping in a silver, two-door Honda Civic with its engine running. The officer woke him up and ordered him to turn off the engine, Kau said.
The man complied.
At the officer's request, the driver provided his identification and car registration.
Two other officers arrived and the first officer on the scene moved to the rear of the car, while a second officer continued to question the driver, Kau said. The third officer stood on the sidewalk.
The second officer was at the driver's side of the car and told the driver to hand over the keys, Kau said. But the driver instead started the engine and began to drive off.
At that point, Kau said, the officer leaned in and tried to snatch the keys.
As the car dragged the officer down Cooke Street, the officer at the rear of the car fired three times, hitting the car's right rear passenger window, its rear window and its trunk, Kau said.
The officers then chased the car across Kapi'olani and onto King Street, where it got away.
Police later found the car abandoned at North School Street and Lanakila Avenue in Kalihi.
Kau emphasized that the incident unfolded quickly — between 11:19 and 11:28 a.m. — and that the officer who fired the shots feared for the other officer's safety.
The officer who fired the shots was placed on routine administrative leave while an investigation is conducted.
At first police thought no one had been hit by the three shots, but at 1 p.m., a man turned himself in at Kapi'olani Medical Center with a single gunshot wound, Kau said. He would not describe the nature of the wound.
Kau described the wounded man as 29 years old, 5 feet 7 and 185 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes.
Several people heard the shots fired.
Colin Takashima was in his office at 711 Kapi'olani, which overlooks the intersection of Kapi'olani and Cooke, when he heard three gunshots and saw two police officers running in the street. The officers jumped into their car and chased another car, Takashima said.
Anou Sithammalat, who works in the Salon Reve on Cooke, said he also heard the shots. He then looked through the window of the hair salon.
"When the man was trying to drive away one officer had jumped into the car, and then the officers went after him," Sithammalat said.
Sithammalat said he had noticed the "suspicious car" at 9:30 a.m., with a man sleeping inside and the lights and engine on.
A neighboring business had called police, Sithammalat said.
Kalihi residents said the Honda was abandoned with its engine running. The rear window was smashed and bullet holes were visible, they said.

"Someone parked here and he ran away," said Jay Poupanya, a resident of the Puahala Homes apartment complex.

While police have the ID and registration papers the driver of the car handed over on Cooke Street, Kau said investigators did not know if they were authentic, or if the car had been stolen. He said the investigation was continuing.