02-20-19 Police reclassify 2018 investigation to a murder/suicide

Hawaiʻi Police Department
Criminal Investigations Division, Area II
Lieutenant Roylen Valera
Phone: 326-4646 Ext. 230
Report No. C18021429

 

 

Media Release

Hawaiʻi Island police are reclassifying a coroner’s inquest investigation to a murder and a suicide.

On August 3, 2018, police responded to an apartment complex on the 75-6000 block of Aliʻi Drive in Kailua-Kona. Officers found the lifeless bodies of a male and female within the second-floor unit.  A firearm was also located.

After an autopsy was conducted on August 10, 2018, police identified the male and female found dead as 48-year-old Joy K. Mills-Ferren and 56-year-old Bradley A. Wood-Ferren, both of Kailua-Kona.  The investigation indicated that each died as a result of a single gunshot wound.

Independent lab examinations along with forensic pathologist findings led police to determine the manner of death for Joy Mills was a homicide while the manner of death for her husband Brad Wood-Ferren was a suicide.


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