CORRECTION: A previous version of this story gave an erroneous subdivision for the alleged shooting based on information provided by police.
Police have initiated an attempted murder investigation after a Monday night shooting in a Puna subdivision.
Officers responded shortly after 9:15 p.m.to after the 42-year-old victim called to report he’d been shot and was driving himself to get treatment.
Police and Hawaii Fire Department personnel met the man in the parking lot of a convenience store in Mountain View.
The victim was taken via ambulance to the Hilo Medical Center with potentially life-threatening injuries. He was admitted and later upgraded to stable condition.
While officers were responding to the initial call, police dispatch received another call from a man who reported he had been involved in a shooting incident outside his residence on Waimaka O Pele Road in Kopua Farm Lots subdivision in Mountain View.
The man told police he’d been shot at and then returned fire.
Police responded to the residence on Waimaka O Pele Road and arrested 40-year-old Shane Fann. He was not injured.
Fann was booked on suspicion of attempted murder and police continue to investigate.
A search warrant was drafted for Fann’s residence and will be served today.
Police are asking anyone with information on this incident to call the police department’s non-emergency number at (808) 935-3311 or to contact Detective Casey Cabral at (808) 961-2384 or Casey.Cabral@hawaiicounty.gov.
Those who prefer to anonymity may call the islandwide Crime Stoppers number at (808) 961-8300 and may be eligible for a reward of up to $1,000.