05-20-16 Kona shooting (update No. 2)

By admin | Published: May 20, 2016

Hawaiʻi Police Department
Criminal Investigations Section, Area II
Lieutenant Gerald Wike
Phone: 326-4646, Ext. 266
Report No. C16009018

 

Media Release (update No. 2)

Hawaiʻi Island police detectives have completed their investigation into a March 31 fatal shooting and have reclassified the case from a murder to a suicide.

Final autopsy results determined that the cause of death was a gunshot wound to the head and that the manner of death was suicide.

In response to a 7:11 a.m. call on March 31, Kona Patrol officers found 62-year-old Marsha Mansker of Kailua-Kona unresponsive at a home on the 73-1200 block of Mahilani Drive in the Kona Highland subdivision.

Mansker’s husband was arrested at the scene on suspicion of second-degree murder and then released the following day pending further investigation.

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