Lawyer Craig Kimsel, who was fatally shot last night in his home on Oneawa Street in Kailua, had attempted to get a court-issued temporary restraining order against the man who was arrested as a suspect in the shooting, court records show.

Kimsel filed for the TRO in January of this year, but it could not be served against Daniel Kahanaoi, who was arrested last night as a suspect in the case, because Kahanaoi could not be located, the records show.

Kahanaoi remained in custody at police headquarters this morning on suspicion of second-degree murder. He had not been charged as of 10:15 a.m.

The Honolulu Medical Examiner's office has determined that the cause of the man's death was massive blood loss due to injury of the blood vessels and organs in the torso due to a gunshot to the torso. The manner of death has been determined to be homicide.

Police were told a man knocked on the door of Kimsel's home at 454 Oneawa St. about 9:30 last night and shot him twice after the door was opened.

Kimsel, 47, was taken to an area hospital where he died.

Police arrested Kahanaoi about an hour after the shooting on suspicion of second-degree murder.

Police gave no motive for the shooting.

The two-story house where the shooting occurred is near the intersection of Oneawa and Hualani streets.

A woman who had a relationship with Kahanaoi for the past few years also filed for a TRO against him last month.

Rusty Anoba said in court documents that Kahanaoi shook her violently and threw her to the ground after she told him she wanted to leave him.

"I believe he was responsible for killing my dog," Anoba said in her request for a restraining order.

Anoba listed a second incident, which she said occurred on March 17 this year, the same day she filed for the TRO.

She said she told Kahanaoi she wanted to leave and he allegedly grabbed her hair and threw her against the wall.

"I fell to the ground. He picked me up by my hair and shoved me outside the door," Anoba wrote in her TRO request.

In another section of the application, Anoba said Kahanaoi may own or possess a firearm.

"I have seen a black gun under the seat of his silver BMW when I drove it," Anoba wrote in the TRO application.