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Hawaii News Now published September 2, 2024: 4 dead, 2 others wounded, after apparent shooting at family gathering in Waianae. Four people are dead, and another two were wounded following an apparent shooting Saturday night at a family gathering in Waianae, according to HPD.

Hawaii News Now published September 5, 2024: Chilling letter shows family of victims in Waianae shooting sought help from police, lawmakers. A chilling letter from the family of the victims in the deadly Waianae Valley shooting shows they sought help from police and elected officials three years ago.

Hawaii News Now published September 3, 2024: The man who shot five people on Saturday night, killing three of them, has been identified by his family as 58-year-old Hiram Silva.

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Hawaii News Now published September 5, 2024: Medical Examiner’s office identifies victims in deadly Waianae Valley shooting. The Honolulu Medical Examiner’s office officially identified Wednesday three female victims killed in last Saturday’s deadly shooting in Waianae Valley.

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Family targeted in Waianae mass shooting had pleaded for a safer neighborhood

written by Daryl Huff

Thursday September 5, 2024

HONOLULU - New details keep emerging on the history of tension in a Waianae Valley neighborhood where a man shot five people last weekend.

Hawaii News Now has learned the family he attacked begged authorities for help three years ago.

The plea came in a chilling letter sent by the wife of the man who killed Saturday’s gunman.

The letter from Alison Keamo-Carnate to state and county politicians describes another scene of mayhem on the narrow lane between Waianae Valley Road and the home of Hiram Silva.

It happened in March 2021, during the COVID lockdown, when the Silva Dome, an illegal party barn on the 20-acre farm lot owned by Hiram and Sandra Silva, hosted a massive hip-hop concert.

The four-page letter emailed on March 23 begins: “It is with great disappointment and immense fury that I report to you what had occurred in the early morning of Sunday, March 21, 2021.”

Keamo-Carnate said a drunk driver leaving the concert smashed into their truck as they approached their driveway.

Keamo-Carnate attached videos of the concert and the parking lot a few hundred feet from the Keamo home.

The vehicle wreck, and a fight between concert goers, blocked the only way out, she wrote.

“All the cars start revving their engines, their drivers are yelling obscenities.... The driver who hit us is now sitting on a rock...with his head in his hands and blood running from his head.”

Keamo-Carnate said police weren’t interested in helping her family, or dealing with the convoy of apparently intoxicated drivers.

“The police are telling us, my family, to go home and they will handle the situation. They also tell the assailants to leave, without arresting or taking statements from them…We tell them, ‘Why are you letting all these people get away, they are breaking the law. You’re just brushing everything under the rug!!, "

Keamo-Carnate said during the chaos they went to confront Hiram Silva — because this wasn’t the first time the illegal dome led to trouble, but he didn’t show.

“We attempted to make peace with our neighbors, the Silvas. We hoped to plan for a safer future, but they declined,” she wrote.

The Keamo family’s attorney, Michael Green, said Silva later threatened them.

“When no one seems to care if you violate laws or ordinances, no one cares. So, you just do whatever you feel like doing, and he’s doing it for years, apparently,” Green said.

Keamo-Carnate’s letter ended with a plea: “How does corruption end in my vulnerable, helpless, scared and tired community? What are our leaders going to do about it? Do they care enough? Will we continue to be silenced because we are beneath? I whole-heartedly urge the city, state, our lawmakers, whoever to do something about this.”

State Rep. Cedric Gates, who represents Waianae and Makaha, said he and Sen. Maile Shimabukuro forwarded the letter to city authorities and he’s said the city should have done more.

“It’s devastating. I’m so heartbroken by the you know, the loss, as well as just them knowing they reached out that they did their best in in whatever the case may have been, to seek help from leaders like me,” Gates said.

But nothing changed. Three years later, on Saturday, five members of the Keamo ohana were shot, three to death, in Hiram Silva’s rampage.

But attorney Green isn’t sure if the family’s plea for help make the city liable.

“Well, it depends what they knew, what they should have done,” Green said. “You know, there’s got to be a nexus or connection between what they could or should have done what their notice was, than to get to the murder or things like that. It’s got to be reasonably foreseeable.”

The only record of the city responding to Sen. Shimabukuro’s message came from from a fire inspector, who emailed a request for Silva’s address, saying the department was looking into the illegal concert on the Silva property, but, “Unfortunately DPP and HPD have been unable to provide us the specific address.”

Gates is particularly troubled by the lack of action of the Department of Planning and Permitting, which has the responsibility to enforce building codes and zoning violations.

“What happened after that is what I’m looking for DPP to explain to us, because I feel like this should have been addressed in 2021and we’re seeing the repercussions of not taking action quicker.”

The city said it did receive the complaint from lawmakers and later warned Silva the dome needed a permit, but was unable to follow up because Silva didn’t respond to their requests to inspect for compliance. The city said cannot cite for illegal parties without seeing them in person. The dome remained in illegal operation until Saturday night.

The police department it filed reports about the assault and car accident, but did not make arrests, apparently because during the pandemic its priority was to break up crowds. The department said it is still looking into the allegations in the letter.