“We don’t know what happened that night. … The waves were huge,” the families of Samantha Chun and Joey Fujioka said
- Samantha Chun and Joey Fujioka were last seen late on Friday, Jan. 17, and their personal belongings were found the next morning
- Five days later, the Coast Guard said it had made the “difficult decision” to suspend its search for the teens
- While the ocean waves were reportedly strong, their families said, “We don’t know what happened that night. We don’t know for sure they went into the water”
The Coast Guard has called off its search for a missing teenage couple believed to have gone swimming one night last week off of Oahu’s North Shore in Hawaii.
Human remains have since been located, though they have not been identified.
Coast Guard officials made their announcement ending the search in a statement on Wednesday, Jan. 22, five days after Samantha Chun, 17, and 18-year-old Joey Fujioka were last seen…