Hawaii Island police have recognized the sufferer of a attainable drowning that occurred Christmas Day, Saturday, within the Kalapana space.
Hawaii Island police have recognized the sufferer of a attainable drowning that occurred Christmas Day, Saturday, within the Kalapana space.
The sufferer was recognized Tuesday by the Hawaii Police Division as 41-year-old Oscar Odom of Puna. Odom had lately moved to Puna from Alaska.
About 1 p.m. Saturdya, officers responded to a report of a swimmer in misery alongside the shoreline in Kalapana. Hawaii Hearth Division rescue personnel extracted the swimmer from the ocean and started cardio-pulmonary resuscitation together with County of Hawaii lifeguards nevertheless, makes an attempt to resuscitate Odom on the scene had been unsuccessful.
Police have initiated a coroner’s inquest investigation and have ordered an post-mortem to find out the precise reason for dying.
Anybody with data on this incident ought to name the division’s nonemergency line at (808) 935-3311.
