Tragedy struck in Makiki early Friday morning. Honolulu police say a man shot and killed a woman and her teenaged daughter, and then turned the gun on himself.
By the time neighbors figured out what happened, it was already too late.
It happened around one o'clock in the morning at a house on the corner of Makiki Street and Round Top Drive. After hearing a dog barking, neighbors then heard several gunshots. Valerie Guillermo was awakened by the first one.
"I heard another shot and I heard another shot with the woman screaming stop, stop, help, help, stop,” she described.
Friends and neighbors identified the victims as Kristine Cass and her 13-year-old daughter Saundra. They had been renting out the basement of the house as an apartment. Neighbors say the man who shot them broke into the home by shattering a window. Shortly after hearing the woman screaming, Guillermo says she then heard a man's voice.
"He was swearing, her voice had stopped, she didn't make any more noises after that and then when he said something there was a final shot."
A friend who lives next door says Cass had called her around eight o'clock the night before. And told her that a guy that she once had coffee with had just come by the house and was harassing her. The guy left after she threatened to call the police. Neighbors believe this same man came back to the house around one o'clock in the morning and shot Cass, her daughter, even the dog, and then shot himself.
"It wasn't like a male ranting, it was like a male saying okay you know and then there was silence."
Guillermo says she felt bad that she couldn't help. But at the time, she was also afraid, not knowing if the gunman was still alive. Honolulu police say the weapon was recovered inside the apartment.
