WAILUKU, Hawaii (Island News) -- At a press conference on Thursday, the Maui Police Department was still visibly hurting from the loss of one of their own. Chief John Peltier and investigators provided a step-by-step description of the shooting.

After Officer Suzanne O was killed on Aug. 15, her patrol car number 1885 turned into a growing memorial.

On the night of the shooting, investigators said officers responded to a terroristic threatening call hearing from the caller that two gunshots were fired at him by a suspect trespassing at the old sugar mill in Paia.

When police arrived, they searched the grounds. Officer O was checking to the left of a concrete pillar when she was shot by the suspect. The round struck just above her bulletproof vest hitting under her arm as she held her fl

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