Anthony Theodore Wagoner, 39, was found dead on April 23, 2024, on a remote property in the Hawai‘i Ocean View Estates subdivision in Ocean View on Hawai‘i Island. Detectives answered a midday call to the 92-8700 block of Lotus Blossom Lane and encountered a decomposing body whose injuries appeared suspicious rather than consistent with natural causes. Identification and cause of death could not be confirmed at the scene.

An autopsy on April 29 determined a single gunshot wound caused the death, and the investigation was reclassified as a homicide. By May 1 police had identified the victim as Wagoner and said his last known address was in Duluth, Minnesota, noting the distance between where he was last known to live and where his remains were recovered. Authorities asked anyone who heard gunshots near Lotus Blossom Lane and Princess Kaiulani Boulevard during the first week of April, or who has other information related to the killing, to contact detectives.

Does anyone have information about activity in that Ocean View neighborhood in early April or knowledge of how Wagoner might have come to be on Lotus Blossom Lane?