The Chilling Story Behind The Worst Mass Shooting in Hawaii
Uyesugi walked into the office cheerily and killed seven of his colleagues.
Heavenly Honolulu and Tragedy
Nobody presumed that a regular working day at a Xerox office in Honolulu, on Nimitz Highway, would be destroyed by a flurry of gunshots in the building or that a man, known to be introverted by his colleagues, would commit what was the worst mass shooting in the history of the island of Hawaii.
20 years later, the sounds of the bullets he shot are remembered in fear, and the small police department dispatchers still remember the most fateful call of their career.
A panicked employee would call 911 for an ambulance, informing the police of an active shooter on 1200 N, the building of Xerox Corporation. The then-chief of the Honolulu Medical Services, Patty Dukes, mentioned how only 3 dispatchers handled the murder spree.
The police chased the perpetrator, 40-year-old Byran Uyesugi, who was under siege for a five-hour standoff before finally surrendering on his brother’s advice.
