It was just a matter of when and where, where it's going to hit next. The idea is still jarring to some of us. When he was growing up around Roosevelt High School, Chris Dawson's family always left the doors unlocked. Going from unlocked doors to 'Beware of Rottweiler' in a 30-year span is an indicator of how things have changed. Even after he moved to Oahu, began a career as an engineer and worried about the influence of drugs and gangs on his own two children, Muronaka was still happy to be living in Hawaii and not on the Mainland.
People seem to know each other and help each other.
This kind of violence is not something you expect here. It's really hard to believe something like this has happened in Hawaii. Pegi Scully felt the same way when she was raising her seven children in Portlock. She worried a surfing accident or an auto accident would claim a child, but not gunfire. The gunman then killed himself.