Righteous refund: The Sunshine Blog has been following the public plight of one local mom, Lucita Ani-Nihoa, whose daughter was gunned down in broad daylight at the Pearlridge Center just days before Christmas in 2023.
Like Ani-Nihoa, The Blog has been interested in the fact that Jason Cachuela used a so-called ghost gun to shoot and kill his wife, Theresa, and then himself. Doesn’t Hawaiʻi have super strong gun laws? Ani-Nihoa even paid the Honolulu Police Department more than $600 for the police reports on her daughter’s murder in order to get some answers more than a year after the killing.
But wait. That was after the Legislature passed and Gov. Josh Green signed a bill specifying that immediate family members are not supposed to be charged for police reports when someone dies. Senate Bill 112 allows family to get the reports pretty much without hassle, recognizing that they’ve been traumatized enough without having to fight with bureaucrats over a police report…