On December 20, 2002, 38-year-old Michael Robert Scheidt was fatally shot while with friends in the parking lot at Kahe Point Beach Park on Oahu’s leeward coast in the Waianae area of Honolulu. A single shot from what investigators later described as a high-powered rifle struck him in the chest. Paramedics transported him to St. Francis Medical Center West, where he was pronounced dead; the medical examiner noted the close-range rifle wound and that Scheidt had no permanent local address at the time.

Witnesses at the scene named a person to Michael’s father, Terry Scheidt, and investigators initially suggested the shooting might have been drug-related, but no clear motive was publicly established. In 2003 the city prosecutor’s office identified Patrick W. Deguair Jr. in state court records as a suspect; Deguair had faced unrelated attempted murder charges from 2001 that ended in acquittal. Despite those leads, no arrest or charges were ever brought in Scheidt’s killing, and prosecutors later told his father that every lead had gone nowhere with no credible witness willing to testify.

Anyone who knew Michael, saw activity at Kahe Point Beach Park on the night of December 20, 2002, or has information about the shooting is asked to come forward.