Dexter DJ Blue-Lorenzo Jr. was a 3-year-old boy found dead inside a Waialua home on February 28, 2022. Police were called after a reported argument; officers encountered a girl who said she could not open a locked bedroom door where her father and the child were inside. Officers entered through an open rear window and found an adult man and the child on a bed with gunshot wounds.

Police indicated the man’s wound was self-inflicted, and the Honolulu Medical Examiner’s Office later ruled the deaths a murder-suicide involving a Waialua man and his son. Contemporaneous reporting identified the suspected shooter as Dexter Blue-Lorenzo, also known as Dexter Lazo, described as a corrections officer. The child’s mother was not at the home at the time; no arrests or charges were filed because the suspected shooter was deceased.

Family notices remembered DJ as born in Honolulu and described as funny, energetic, and deeply loved; services were organized and supporters were asked for help with funeral expenses.