‘Clothes were in pieces,’ Witness describes scene of chemical attack

HONOLULU (KHON2) — The search continues for an attempted murder suspect after Honolulu police said a woman walking in the Ala Moana area Tuesday evening had a chemical thrown on her. HPD released a description of the suspect and continue to investigate whether this was a random act.

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According to Honolulu police, the incident happened outside of an Ala Moana gym around 9:15 p.m. Tuesday. Witnesses told KHON2, they heard a woman screaming and when they ran to the front of the gym, they saw the unimaginable.

“I told [my friend] let’s go look what happened because only one of the boys was working in the front and the other was in the back,” the witness said.

When they walked outside, they found the 25-year-old victim with her clothes in pieces.

“She looked like, you know when you melt a candle, that’s kind of how her body was going,” said Sandra Ahn, a witness.

The witness said, she quickly got the 25-year-old woman to the shower in the gym.

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