It's been four years since 31-year-old Jason Nam was murdered in broad daylight.
Since his tragic death police say they do not have any suspects in the case. “We'd like to know why...it's not going to bring Jason back but at least want to understand why you take a life,” Jason’s mother Alicia Nam said
On March 10, 2006 at about 4 p.m., Jason Nam was working on his car in the parking lot where he lived when witnesses say three men with bandanas covering their faces attacked him, beat him with a bat and then fired a single gunshot hitting him in the neck.
The men drove off in what turned out to be a stolen getaway car.
Jason was pronounced dead at the hospital.
“Later that evening at about 9:25 p.m. the vehicle that was used by the suspect's was found abandoned in Mililani and set on fire,” Crimestoppers Honolulu Sgt. Kim Buffett said.
Since then, detectives continue to search for clues but have come up empty handed and Jason's family says they are still looking for answers.
“As far as we know no body seems to know and don't have any motive...they just don't know,” Nam said.
Jason's parents say they continue to grieve the loss of their son.
He was graduate of Castle High School, a loving and good natured person, hard worker, well liked by everyone and who was the middle child out of three boys.
“You still have that tendency to think about him. And that really breaks me up, no parent wants to bury their child,” Nam said.
Jason's girlfriend says she continues to mourn the loss of her high school sweetheart.
“And there’s not a day that goes by that I don't think about him,” Jason’s girlfriend San Pratt said.
She says she continues to struggle with losing the love of her life.
"I wonder to myself if he was living what would my life look like today,” Pratt said.
At the time of Jason's murder, San was working at a local television news station when she heard what happened over the police scanners.
An ambulance was called to her home address, she called Jason's cell phone and a neighbor told her he'd been shot.
“And my whole world collapsed after that I was in utter shock,” Pratt said.
She's still in shock today.
“I think about it all the time I try to make up who, who, who. It's baffling because I don't have the answers and I wanna help them find the people who did this to Jason but I don't know,” Pratt said.
Honolulu police say random murders in Hawaii are uncommon and shootings in public in residential areas are very unusual.
“If you know anything don't carry that on your conscience just come forward and give us information so we myself his family can put have closure for his death,” Pratt said.
If you have any information or leads that result in the arrest and conviction of suspects in this case, Crimestoppers offers a reward up to $1,000.
Call them at #955-8300.
