Lino Nedelec, a 22-year-old Native Hawaiian man from ʻAiea, was shot and later died from his wounds after gunfire erupted just before dawn on December 25, 2023. He was riding with friends in a white sedan as it pulled away from the Pūʻuwai Momi Housing Complex and rolled onto Kamehameha Highway when an unknown male opened fire on the vehicle. The sedan continued moving long enough for help to be summoned and for Nedelec to be taken to a nearby hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead from a gunshot injury.

Authorities treated the incident as a second-degree murder investigation and publicly asked for information that might place the shooter at the scene or explain why the car was targeted; no arrests or named suspects were announced in the initial updates. Nedelec was described as 5 feet 7 inches, about 210 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes.

If anyone saw a person with a gun near the complex, suspicious vehicle movement as the sedan exited, or other details from that early-morning scene, please come forward with what was seen or heard.