Hawaiʻi Police Department
Criminal Invstigations Section
Lieutenant Gregory Esteban
Phone: 961-2252
Report No.C17003610
Desmond Kepano
Media Release (update)
Hawaiʻi Island police have charged the 29-year-old man who was arrested early Tuesday (February 7) for a shooting incident Monday night (February 6) in the parking lot of a shopping center on Kanoelehua Avenue in Hilo.
At 9:52 p.m. Wednesday (February 8) Desmond Lee K. Kepano, who has no permanent address, was charged with attempted second-degree murder, four counts of first-degree terroristic threatening, and one count each of resisting arrest and resisting an order to stop. Bail was set at $294,000.
He is being held at the Hilo police cellblock pending his initial court appearance scheduled for Thursday (February 9).