Police officers responding to a report of a stolen Mazda shot one of the vehicle’s occupants after the driver repeatedly rammed into an unmarked police car and a second unoccupied car, Interim Chief Rade Vanic said Monday night.
Honolulu police officers first spotted the car — which had been linked to a robbery the previous week — driving through downtown Honolulu near Ward Avenue and South King Street on Monday afternoon before locating it in a parking lot of a housing complex on Kapiʻolani Boulevard.
Responding officers, who were in plainclothes and not wearing body cameras, gave repeated commands for the vehicle’s occupants to get out of the car when the driver started driving toward officers, Vanic said…