Glen Alvin Gaspar was a 40-year-old Native Hawaiian and a 12-year veteran Honolulu police officer when he was killed on March 4, 2003, in Kapolei on Oahu. Gaspar was working in plainclothes with a Career Criminal Unit team staking out a Baskin-Robbins at the Kapolei Shopping Center to arrest a man wanted in connection with an earlier shooting. When the suspect entered the store just before 1 p.m., officers moved to arrest him and a struggle broke out. In seconds Gaspar was shot multiple times and later died at St. Francis-West Medical Center.

The suspect, identified as Shane Mark, was apprehended at the scene. Prosecutors charged him with first-degree murder; at trial his defense said he believed the men were not police and acted in self-defense. The jury rejected that claim and in December 2003 convicted Mark of second-degree murder and related firearm offenses. A 2004 judge sentenced him to life without parole plus another life term on a related count. The case also produced a separate federal prosecution of the man who sold Mark the gun used in the killing.

Does anyone have information about Gaspar’s last assignment or recall being near the Kapolei Shopping Center that afternoon?