COURTESY PHOTO The booking photo of suspect Warren Cho Jr., 38.
COURTESY PHOTO The booking photo of suspect Warren Cho Jr., 38.
Hawaii Island Police arrested 38-year-old Captain Cook resident Warren Cho Jr. charged with terroristic threats following a firearms incident Friday in Hookena.
At 6:40 a.m. Friday, Kona Patrol officers were dispatched to the 84-4500 block of Mamalahoa Highway on a report of a man walking on the roadway with a gun. Several other callers contacted police and reported that the man had allegedly shot at vehicles passing his location.
Officers on scene found the man with what appeared to be a gun and disarmed him. Officers arrested him on two counts of first-degree terroristic threatening. The firearm was later identified as a break barrel BB pellet gun.
An employee at Hookena Elementary School reported that children were playing outside the school when a staff member saw the man with the gun staring into the school yard. School staff immediately took the children to the school and placed the campus on lockdown.
Cho was charged Saturday with first-degree terroristic threats.
His bail was set at $5,000. Cho will make his first court appearance Monday in Kona District Court.
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Anyone who witnessed this incident or is an unidentified victim is asked to contact Officer Dane Shibuya Jr. at (808) 326-4646, ext. 253.
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