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June 2, 2009
Schofield soldier charged in attacks with pellet gun
Woman sent to hospital, others hit in shootings in Mililani, Wahiawa
Advertiser Staff
Woman sent to hospital, others hit in shootings in Mililani, Wahiawa
Advertiser Staff
Authorities have charged a Schofield Barracks soldier with assault and other offenses in connection with a Friday night pellet-gun shooting spree that injured a woman in Mililani, and endangered people and damaged a business in Wahiawa.
Daniel W. Womack, 21, was charged with first-degree assault, reckless endangering and criminal property damage.
Police released a second person without charges, the prosecutor's office said.
According to a police affidavit, the second suspect told an arresting officer, "We just bought those guns from Wal-Mart." But Womack denied that he was at Wal-Mart, and said they had just come "from Whitmore," the affidavit said.
Witnesses told police that on Friday night, they saw a dark-colored car driving in Mililani and Wahiawa with two men inside. In the first incident, a woman reported at 8:15 p.m. that she was shot, possibly by a pellet or BB gun, behind the City Mill store in Mililani Town Center, according to a police affidavit. The assailants drove away on Meheula Parkway.
The woman was taken to a hospital. An update on her condition was not available.
The car was described as a dark-colored sedan with a rear spoiler.
About 8:30 p.m., someone called police to report that a car matching that description was involved in a pellet-gun shooting at California Avenue and Mango Street in Wahiawa.
The caller said four males were at that intersection when a dark-colored car drove past on Mango Street and made a U-turn, the affidavit said. On the second pass, someone in the car fired five shots from a pellet gun at the group. A pellet hit one of the males and three hit a window at 564 California Ave., the affidavit said.
At 8:58 p.m., a man reported to police that he had been shot in the arm by a pellet fired by men in a dark-colored car on Whitmore Avenue. He was not hospitalized.
Police arrested Womack and his passenger about 9 p.m. on Mango Street near Kilani Avenue.
Womack is to be arraigned tomorrow at 1:30 p.m.


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