Hawaiʻi Police Department
Criminal Investigations Section, Area II
Lieutenant Gerald Wike
Phone: 326-4646, Ext. 266
Report No. C16009018
James Mansker
Media Release (update)
A Kona man who was arrested after a fatal shooting in Kona on Thursday (March 31) has been released from police custody.
At 2:15 p.m. Friday (April 1), detectives released 70-year-old James Mansker of Kailua-Kona pending further investigation.
An autopsy on the victim, 62-year-old Marsha Mansker of Kailua-Kona, has been scheduled for Monday (April 4) to determine her exact cause of death.
In response to a 7:11 a.m. call Thursday, Kona Patrol officers found Marsha Mansker unresponsive with a fatal gunshot wound to the head at a home on the 73-1200 block of Mahilani Drive in the Kona Highland subdivision.
James Mansker was arrested at the scene on suspicion of second-degree murder.