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Nofoa eluded police for weeks before fatal shooting
POSTED: 05:10 p.m. HST, Mar 18, 2009
Prosecutors planned to charge Toi Nofoa with 19 offenses against his ex-girlfriend since February, but couldn’t because police weren’t able to find him.
A day after he failed to show up in court, he was wanted for questioning in connection with the fatal shooting of his ex-girlfriend.
A court document released today said that Nofoa, 31, committed 19 offenses against Royal Kaukani since Feb. 8, including violating a protective restraining order, kidnapping, assault, terroristic threatening, and felony abuse.
Police arrested Nofoa on Tuesday at about 9 p.m. for questioning in connection with the Kaukani’s shooting and on warrants connected to Kaukani’s kidnapping last fall.
Charges have yet to be filed.
Kaukani was shot in the head Tuesday about 2:30 p.m. while seated in a black H-2 Hummer near her Kaukolu Place home. She died later that day at the Queen’s Medical Center.
According to a police affidavit, Nofoa violated a protective restraining order that Kaukani filed against him more than a dozen times last month.
The affidavit said on Feb. 11 a police officer went to the Halawa Heights home of one of Nofoa’s relatives to investigate a report that Nofoa refused to leave.
Kaukani and Nofoa’s relative asked the officer to get Nofoa to leave. After he left, Kaukani told the officer that Nofoa attacked her on Feb. 8 at about 3 a.m., the affidavit said.
Kaukani reported that she had tried to leave the same house, but Nofoa forced her into a bedroom at knifepoint.
Nofoa threw her onto a bed and choked her until she passed out, she said. When she regained consciousness, she noticed blood and a cut on the left side of her head. She reported Nofoa hit her and cut her with the knife.
Police opened cases of kidnapping, second-degree assault, and first-degree terroristic threatening.
On Feb. 20 at about 9:45 p.m., Kaukani reported to police that Nofoa had repeatedly called her cell phone and harassed her about not keeping her mouth shut, the affidavit said.
Kaukani told the officer that she had a protective order against Nofoa until Dec. 1, 2028.
Police opened investigations into five protective restraining order violations against Nofoa for five of the several calls that Kaukani answered.
Five days later, police opened more restraining order violations against Nofoa for allegedly calling Kaukani’s cell phone and swearing at her. After Kaukani told him to stop, Nofoa called her more than seven times, the report said.
On the last phone call, the officer heard Nofoa saying on Kaukani’s speakerphone that he “would shoot Kaukani in the head,” the report said.
The officer opened a second-degree terroristic threatening case and eight protective order violations against Nofoa.
On March 4, Kaukani reported to police that Nofoa called her from his sister’s house in California.
A Prosecutor’s Office spokesman said Nofoa was scheduled for a March 5 court date, but didn’t appear and forfeited a $75,000 bail bond. A bench warrant was issued for his arrest that day, a judiciary spokeswoman said.
Nofoa’s scheduled court date was in connection with the kidnapping of Kaukani on Sept. 11. According to police, Nofoa had abducted Kaukani at gunpoint from her workplace in Ko Olina. She escaped at a service station in Wahiawa with the help of bystanders.
Nofoa failed to appear for court again on Monday.
Jim Fulton, spokesman for the Prosecutor’s Office, said they had planned to charge Nofoa for the criminal offenses in February, but didn’t have him in custody.
Michelle Yu, Honolulu police department spokeswoman, said police had been searching for Nofoa before the shooting.
“They were out there looking,” she said. “They did check areas that he was known to frequent.”
She couldn’t say why police were able to locate Nofoa so quickly yesterday, but said more information may have come out after the shooting.
Prosecutors planned to charge Toi Nofoa with 19 offenses against his ex-girlfriend since February, but couldn’t because police weren’t able to find him.
A day after he failed to show up in court, he was wanted for questioning in connection with the fatal shooting of his ex-girlfriend.
A court document released today said that Nofoa, 31, committed 19 offenses against Royal Kaukani since Feb. 8, including violating a protective restraining order, kidnapping, assault, terroristic threatening, and felony abuse.
Police arrested Nofoa on Tuesday at about 9 p.m. for questioning in connection with the Kaukani’s shooting and on warrants connected to Kaukani’s kidnapping last fall.
Charges have yet to be filed.
Kaukani was shot in the head Tuesday about 2:30 p.m. while seated in a black H-2 Hummer near her Kaukolu Place home. She died later that day at the Queen’s Medical Center.
According to a police affidavit, Nofoa violated a protective restraining order that Kaukani filed against him more than a dozen times last month.
The affidavit said on Feb. 11 a police officer went to the Halawa Heights home of one of Nofoa’s relatives to investigate a report that Nofoa refused to leave.
Kaukani and Nofoa’s relative asked the officer to get Nofoa to leave. After he left, Kaukani told the officer that Nofoa attacked her on Feb. 8 at about 3 a.m., the affidavit said.
Kaukani reported that she had tried to leave the same house, but Nofoa forced her into a bedroom at knifepoint.
Nofoa threw her onto a bed and choked her until she passed out, she said. When she regained consciousness, she noticed blood and a cut on the left side of her head. She reported Nofoa hit her and cut her with the knife.
Police opened cases of kidnapping, second-degree assault, and first-degree terroristic threatening.
On Feb. 20 at about 9:45 p.m., Kaukani reported to police that Nofoa had repeatedly called her cell phone and harassed her about not keeping her mouth shut, the affidavit said.
Kaukani told the officer that she had a protective order against Nofoa until Dec. 1, 2028.
Police opened investigations into five protective restraining order violations against Nofoa for five of the several calls that Kaukani answered.
Five days later, police opened more restraining order violations against Nofoa for allegedly calling Kaukani’s cell phone and swearing at her. After Kaukani told him to stop, Nofoa called her more than seven times, the report said.
On the last phone call, the officer heard Nofoa saying on Kaukani’s speakerphone that he “would shoot Kaukani in the head,” the report said.
The officer opened a second-degree terroristic threatening case and eight protective order violations against Nofoa.
On March 4, Kaukani reported to police that Nofoa called her from his sister’s house in California.
A Prosecutor’s Office spokesman said Nofoa was scheduled for a March 5 court date, but didn’t appear and forfeited a $75,000 bail bond. A bench warrant was issued for his arrest that day, a judiciary spokeswoman said.
Nofoa’s scheduled court date was in connection with the kidnapping of Kaukani on Sept. 11. According to police, Nofoa had abducted Kaukani at gunpoint from her workplace in Ko Olina. She escaped at a service station in Wahiawa with the help of bystanders.
Nofoa failed to appear for court again on Monday.
Jim Fulton, spokesman for the Prosecutor’s Office, said they had planned to charge Nofoa for the criminal offenses in February, but didn’t have him in custody.
Michelle Yu, Honolulu police department spokeswoman, said police had been searching for Nofoa before the shooting.
“They were out there looking,” she said. “They did check areas that he was known to frequent.”
She couldn’t say why police were able to locate Nofoa so quickly yesterday, but said more information may have come out after the shooting.
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