Hahn Soo Kim was a 41-year-old taxi driver who emigrated from Seoul and lived with his family in Salt Lake, Honolulu. On the night bridging September 1–2, 1999, he worked late shifts for SIDA Taxi in his brown 1984 Buick station wagon. Dispatch records show a check-in about a pickup at Honolulu Airport shortly after 1 a.m., and he was seen dropping off a passenger in Waikiki around 1:30 a.m. Investigators believe he may have taken an unreported fare afterward that led him across the Pali toward Kailua.

At about 2:52 a.m. on September 2, Kim was found slumped over in the driver’s seat of his running cab in the parking lot of Kailua Beach Park, with a fatal gunshot wound to the head. Police characterized the death as a homicide and said robbery appeared to be the likely motive, but they later noted no money was taken and there was no usable description of a suspect. The case was listed among Oahu’s unsolved 1999 homicides and placed on the cold case roster. No arrests, identified suspects, trials, or convictions have been publicly reported. If anyone saw Kim’s cab between Waikiki and Kailua that night or has other information, please contact Honolulu detectives or CrimeStoppers.