2 police officers killed in Hawaii shooting

The suspect opened fire as police arrived, killing Officers Tiffany Enriquez and Kaulike Kalama at the scene. The incident took place when the officers were responding to an assault call near the base of Diamond Head.

Honolulu: A man shot and killed two police officers Sunday as they responded to a home in a leafy neighbourhood beneath the rim of a famed volcanic crater near Waikiki Beach, authorities said.

The officers were responding to a call from a woman who said she needed help and found her with a stab wound to her leg, police said Sunday.

The suspect opened fire as police arrived, killing Officers Tiffany Enriquez and Kaulike Kalama, said Honolulu Police Chief Susan Ballard.

The house caught fire, and Ballard said the suspect, as well as two women who were in the home, were unaccounted for.

Ballard said authorities would continue to search for the shooter, but that it was likely that he was inside the home when it burned.

The homeowner, Lois Cain, had recently sought to have a man evicted, court records showed.

A neighbour said that she saw Cain being loaded into an ambulance with knife wounds.

Cain’s condition was not immediately confirmed, nor was the suspect’s.

Flames emerging from the home soon spread to several others.

Honolulu fire said five homes were “complete losses.”

The normally peaceful neighborhood where shots were fired is at the far end of the Waikiki Beach between the Honolulu Zoo and the famed Diamond Head State Monument, a volcanic crater that looms above Honolulu and is popular with tourists and hikers.