Pearl Harbor shooting: A US sailor opened fire at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and killed two Filipinos in Hawaii last week.
Authorities identified the two Filipino victims as Vincent Kapoi Jr., 39, and Roldan Agustin, 49. Both of them were employees of the Defense department, wherein Kapoi was a metals inspector apprentice while Agustin was a shop planner.
The shooting also injures another Defense employee Roger Nakamine, 36, who is still recovering at a hospital.
The gunman, meanwhile, was identified as Gabriel Antonio Romero, a 22-year-old machinist’s mate auxiliary fireman. The gunman died after he shot himself in the head after the shooting.
“The entire shooting took approximately 23 seconds before he killed himself,” said Charles Anthony, a member of the Navy Region Hawaii Public Affairs Office.
2 Filipinos dead in Pearl Harbor shooting
White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said that US President Donald Trump already knew the incident and was monitoring the situation.
Hawaii governor David Ige tweeted that the “White House has reached out to offer assistance from federal agencies, and the state is standing by to assist where necessary.”
“I join in solidarity with the people of Hawaii as we express our heartbreak over this tragedy and concern for those affected by the shooting,” Ige wrote.
Authorities continue to conduct investigations, but they believe the Pearl Harbor shooting incident was not related to domestic terrorism.
“There’s a lot of rumors and things and unofficial stuff that’s floating around out there, but I mean, I’m just not able to confirm a whole lot at this point because, as I said, the investigation is ongoing,” Anthony said.
Pearl Harbor Anniversary
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise, preemptive military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States (a neutral country at the time) against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, just before 08:00, on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United States’ formal entry into World War II the next day. The Japanese military leadership referred to the attack as the Hawaii Operation and Operation AI, and as Operation Z during its planning.