Tyrone Kalai Torres was 21 and from Puna, Hawaiʻi, when he was killed on February 25, 2007. His body was later identified inside a burned car found near the shoreline in the Waʻa Waʻa area of Lower Puna. A preliminary autopsy reported a single shotgun blast to the head, and investigators concluded the fire was set after the fatal shot.

Police quickly focused on a teenage acquaintance, identified in court and news accounts as Malaki McBride, then 17. Authorities say Torres had been sitting in a car in Nanawale Estates with the suspect’s former girlfriend when McBride allegedly opened the car door and fired one shotgun blast. McBride was charged as a juvenile, later transferred for adult prosecution, and the state dropped the arson count before trial. He stipulated that he knowingly caused Torres’ death with a firearm and pleaded guilty to the firearm charge; a jury rejected his extreme mental or emotional disturbance defense and convicted him of second-degree murder and unauthorized control of a propelled vehicle.

No other suspects have been publicly identified. Did anyone in Puna at the time see or hear anything that could shed more light on that night?