A Hawaii man stabbed his wife and three children to death before taking his own life Sunday morning, police said.
Cops entered the home in Honolulu’s Manoa neighborhood to find five people dead inside, Honolulu police officer Deena Thoemmes said at a press conference.
The victims have not been publicly identified. The children were 17, 12 and 10 years old, according to Thoemmes. Their genders were not disclosed.
Officers were first called to the home around 8:30 a.m. Sunday, when an anonymous caller reported a fight at the residence, Thoemmes said. However, no one met the cops at the scene, and they did not enter the home.
About 45 minutes later, a second call came in. Thoemmes said that call provided enough information for officers to enter the home and discover the grisly scene.
“It was the second call when they realized what happened,” she said.
Honolulu police investigate the suspected murder-suicide in Honolulu on March 10, 2024. (Craig T. Kojima/Honolulu Star-Advertiser via AP)Though investigators believe the four victims were stabbed to death, Thoemmes did not reveal their attacker’s cause of death. She said the local coroner would determine and release that information. The knife believed to be the murder weapon was recovered from the scene.
Any possible motive for the attack remains under investigation. Police said there was no history of calls to the home for domestic violence.
The familicide was the deadliest act of violence in Honolulu since the 1999 Xerox shooting, according to Honolulu Police Chief Joe Logan. In that incident, Xerox worker Byran Uyesugi fatally shot his supervisor and six coworkers at the company’s facilities in the city.
Uyesugi was convicted in 2000 and sentenced to a minimum of 235 years in prison.
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