The lawsuit, filed by the parents of Kainoa Kahele-Bishop, who was shot and killed March 10 by Hawaii island police, names detectives Justin Gaspar, Chad Taniyama, the county, and other unnamed defendants.
The family of a 32-year-old Kailua-Kona man who was shot and killed in a car he was driving by Hawaii police during a hunt for an attempted murder suspect filed a wrongful death lawsuit Thursday against the two officers and the county.