Opinion ID: 4527904
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 5

Heading: HPD Officer Garrett Hatada

Text: State witness HPD Officer Hatada testified as follows. On January 2, 2013 at around 7:44 p.m., Officer Hatada was assigned to reports of gunshots fired in the Wailoa State Park area. Officer Hatada and Officer Gouveia went to Pono Place, where several people who were fishing told him they had heard gunshots forty minutes earlier from the Maile Street area. After 13  FOR PUBLICATION IN WEST’S HAWAI‘I REPORTS AND PACIFIC REPORTER  investigating Maile Street, Officer Hatada learned from dispatch that someone had reported a man hiding under a vehicle at Pono Place. Officer Hatada and Officer Gouveia returned to Pono Place, and Officer Gouveia indicated that he saw someone hiding beneath one of the vehicles. They called for an additional unit, and Officer Nacis arrived. Officer Hatada approached the driver’s side of the dark-colored vehicle while Officer Gouveia approached from the passenger’s side. Officer Hatada knelt down behind the vehicle’s front tire and shined his flashlight on the person beneath the vehicle. Officer Hatada saw that the person had “short black hair” and tattoos on his arm. Officer Hatada then heard Officer Gouveia shout, “Don’t do it, don’t do it,” as he saw the man fumbling with his waistband. Officer Hatada then stood up, drew his weapon, heard three gunshots, and felt pain in his leg. Officer Hatada fired two rounds toward the area he had seen the shooter. Officer Hatada then took cover under a banyan tree.