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The caller s name and address have been removed from the recording. I don t know whether he knows our owner or not, the woman said on the call. I don t know him.
“Is he white? Is he Black? Is he local? the dispatcher asked. The woman, who sounded like she was crying through much of the call, eventually answered, “Black.”
When gunshots rang out, the dispatcher exclaimed, “Oh my God.”
In addition to the 911 call, police earlier released two clips from responding officers body camera footage.
In one clip of the dark footage, what sounds like a distraught woman outside a house tells an officer, “that s him.” The officer yells repeatedly for Myeni to get on the ground.
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For a second time in less than two weeks, Honolulu police have shot and killed someone. A man who walked into a Honolulu home punched officers who responded to the burglary call Wednesday night and later died at a hospital after an officer fired at him, Chief Susan Ballard said.
The man, who is about 29 years old, arrived at the home in a car, walked inside, sat down and took off his shoes frightening the occupants, Ballard said.
When the first officer arrived, the man had returned to his car and walked toward a second officer. The first officer ordered the man to stop and get on the ground, Ballard said, but the man instead punched the first officer several times.