HONOLULU (Island News) – New details have been released regarding an attempted murder incident that occurred in the Tantalus area on Wednesday, May 21, 2025.

According to legal documents, the 23-year-old woman who was shot during the incident, had received gunshot wounds to her shoulder, neck, and head.

A Physicians report from the Queen’s Medical Center stated, “Although the injuries did not end up being life-threatening, but potentially would have been with even a inch shift in position.”

Investigators met with the woman and she gave a verbal statement of what happened, stating that she was at the 7-Eleven store at Piikoi St. and Young St. when John Garside, 54, picked her up in his gray Civic.

She explained that Garside drove her to an unknown cemetery, where they smoked methampheta

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