Full Notification

Hawaiʻi Police Department
Criminal Investigations Section, Area II
Lieutenant Gerald Wike
Phone: 326-4646, Ext. 266
Report No. C14009104


Media Release (update)

Hawaiʻi Island police have charged a 39-year-old Kailua-Kona man with nine offenses in connection with an incident involving numerous shots being fired in his Kona apartment and at a resort parking lot.

At 11 a.m. Monday (April 7), Raymond Lee Robinson was charged with first-degree terroristic threatening, first-degree reckless endangering, second-degree reckless endangering, third-degree criminal property damage, loaded firearm on a highway, place to keep ammunition and three counts of place to keep firearms.

At 12:03 p.m. Saturday, Kona Patrol officers responded to a report of shots being fired in a parking lot of a Kailua-Kona resort near the intersection of Kuakini Highway and Palani Road. As police approached the man, who was seated in a rental vehicle, he fired numerous shots into the air and made verbal threats against the officers. He was arrested shortly thereafter and taken to the Kona police cellblock pending further investigation.

No one was injured during the shooting and police received no reports of damage from the gunshots. Officers recovered numerous spent casings from the vicinity.

It was later learned that just prior to this incident, shots had been reported at Robinson’s apartment located off Kakahiaka Road, in Kailua-Kona. There were no reported injuries at or around his apartment.

Detectives from the Area II Criminal Investigations Section obtained search warrants for the car and apartment. They recovered two handguns, a rifle and ammunition from the vehicle as well as a handgun and ammunition from the apartment. They also recovered spent handgun casings from the apartment, which had gunshot damage inside.

Robinson’s bail was set at $123,000. He remains at the cellblock pending his initial court appearance scheduled for Tuesday (April 8).