Community: 10-14-21 (Update) Puna Electrocution Victim Identified
Community: 10-14-21 (Update) Puna Electrocution Victim Identified
Hawai‘i Island police have identified the woman who was electrocuted and died in Hawaiian Beaches on Tuesday evening, October 12, 2021, as 58-year-old Cindy Lehuanani Gonsalves-Pascual, of Pahoa.
An autopsy was performed on Wednesday morning, October 13, and concluded Gonsalves-Pascual died as a result of severe electrocution injuries, and the manner of death was ruled accidental.
Detectives with the Area I Criminal Investigation Section are continuing this investigation, which is classified as a public accident and coroner’s inquest.
Police ask anyone who may have been in the area and witnessed this incident or has information to call the police department’s non-emergency line at (808) 935-3311 or Detective Clarence Davies at (808) 961-2382 or clarence.davies@hawaiicounty.gov.
