On the morning of December 22, 2023, Theresa Cachuela, 33, was shot and killed in the parking garage at Pearlridge Center in ʻAiea while she was out on an errand with her child nearby. The shooting followed a period of escalating threats and harassment linked to her estranged husband, Jason Cachuela, against whom she obtained a temporary restraining order on December 8 and an order of protection after a Family Court hearing on December 20. Police served the restraining order on December 11 and seized five firearms registered to Jason, but two days after the court order was entered he confronted Theresa at the mall and shot her.

The suspect fled and was later found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound behind a Waipahu residence, leaving the incident described as a suspected murder-suicide. A troubling unresolved detail is the weapon used: investigators reported the gun was an unserialized Glock-style semi-automatic linked to Polymer80, and said they found no evidence showing how he obtained it.

If anyone knew Theresa or saw her at Pearlridge that morning, please share what you remember.