Danielle Taty’ana Maile Samson-Cabral was 18 when she died after being flown from Puna to The Queen’s Medical Center in Honolulu following a gunshot wound to the head on September 24, 2018. The shooting happened inside a home on Weston Way in the Ainaloa subdivision; someone in the house called authorities and Danielle was medevaced to Oahu, where she died shortly after 11 p.m.

Preliminary information in reports said the shooting may have been accidental and an autopsy was performed to determine the exact cause of death, though those early findings were not immediately released. No arrests had been announced and no suspects publicly identified. Friends and family remembered Danielle as smart, strong-minded, and beautiful; a celebration of her life was held December 15, 2018, at New Hope - Hilo, with her ashes scattered at Four-Miles Beach Park.

If anyone has information about the circumstances of the shooting on Weston Way that night, please share what you know.