Hawaiʻi Police Department
Juvenile Aid Section, Area I
Detective Fetuutuunai Ahuihuia
Phone: 961-2278
Report No. C13007791
Media Release (update)
Police have identified the man who drowned March 23 in Puna as 37-year-old Jay Patrick Corbett of Gunnison, Colorado.
At 3:38 p.m. on that date, Puna police officers responded to a report of a swimmer in distress at Orr’s Beach in the Waʻa Waʻa area of Puna. They learned that the victim had been jumping off cliffs into the water with friends when he became caught in the current and pulled under.
Fire Department personnel retrieved him from the water and took him to Hilo Medical Center, where he was pronounce dead at 5:50 p.m.
His name was initially withheld pending positive identification and notification of his family.