Honolulu police officers shot and killed a 50-year-old man outside Queen’s Medical Center after he pointed a gun at them Thursday morning, according to Honolulu police Interim Chief Rade Vanic.
Minutes before the shooting, police received a call from someone telling them there was a man outside the hospital who was expressing suicidal thoughts and had a firearm, Vanic told reporters during a press conference Thursday afternoon.
Two officers approached the man at around 10:20 a.m. as he stood on the sidewalk near the intersection of Punchbowl and South Beretania streets. As the officers got closer, the man, who was not identified, reached into his waistband and pulled out a handgun, Vanic said.
The officers fired multiple times, Vanic said. The man was taken inside the hospital for treatment and pronounced dead…