06-08-15 Observatory damage (update) 
Hawaiʻi Police Department
Criminal Investigations Section, Area I
Captain Robert Wagner
Phone: 961-2251
Report No. C15016638
Media Release
Hawaiʻi Island police have determined that damage to an observatory at the summit of Mauna Kea was not a bullet hole.
A detective investigated the scene Monday (June 8) and determined that a hole in a door to the observatory was caused by a bolt from an adjacent wall and that it had been there for approximately six months.
The case that had been initiated for this incident will be closed as unfounded.
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