Opinion ID: 4527904
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 7

Heading: HPD Sergeant Aaron Carvalho

Text: State witness Sergeant Aaron Carvalho (“Sergeant Carvalho”) testified as follows. On January 3, 2013, Sergeant Carvalho’s special response team was assigned to make contact with a suspect in an attempted murder investigation on East Palai Street. Sergeant Carvalho arrived at the residence in an armored vehicle at approximately 3:17 p.m. Sergeant Kahalewai identified the group as police and gave verbal instructions over the PA system. They then received a radio transmission that a 15  FOR PUBLICATION IN WEST’S HAWAI‘I REPORTS AND PACIFIC REPORTER  single shot was heard from inside the house. A man, who later identified himself as Trail, came out of the house. Trail told Sergeant Carvalho that Martin was in the house and that he had seen Martin shoot himself in the stomach. Sergeant Carvalho then deployed a remote control surveillance robot with a live feed video camera into the house. Through the live feed, he saw a man lying on his back with a pistol on the ground next to his left hand. Sergeant Carvalho entered the house and saw the same man and pistol that he had seen through the live feed. Sergeant Carvalho told the man not to move and to show his hands. The man raised his hands slightly and said, “I shot myself.” Sergeant Carvalho told the man to turn over and put his hands behind his back, and the man again said, “I shot myself.” The man appeared to be bleeding from the abdomen area, but he seemed to understand Sergeant Carvalho’s commands. In the courtroom, Sergeant Carvalho identified Martin as the man he had seen on the floor.