Glenn William “Baba” I'i, a 60-year-old Native Hawaiian man, was killed on June 22, 2020, after gunfire erupted in Pearl City, Hawaiʻi. Accounts published afterward described him as a well-known figure to loved ones and community, remembered in memorial notices as “Baba” and mourned for an untimely death that left those around him trying to make sense of how a family conflict could turn lethal.
Public reporting tied the shooting to a dispute within his immediate circle, with multiple sources describing investigators' early belief that the violence involved a close family member and that person's boyfriend. In the version of events circulated soon after the shooting, an argument allegedly escalated and led to a confrontation that continued into Pearl City, where the fatal shots were fired. Some summaries of the reported narrative said the tension centered on a stimulus-check dispute and described a pursuit that ended with the deadly encounter.
In the immediate aftermath, authorities took two people into custody, including the victim's adult daughter, according to contemporaneous public updates. The situation was described as moving quickly—an apparent domestic conflict turning into a homicide scene—while investigators worked to sort out responsibility and the sequence of events. At that stage, the publicly available updates emphasized custody status and an investigation in progress, rather than detailing formal charges or a court timetable.
In the online sources available for this synopsis, there is clear mention of two suspects being detained and of investigators viewing the case through the lens of a family dispute, but there is not enough publicly documented follow-through in those same sources to reliably state later outcomes such as indictment wording, trial dates, plea agreements, or convictions. As a result, the only defensible arrest-related detail from the accessible reporting is that two individuals—identified publicly in some updates as the daughter and her boyfriend—were taken into custody in connection with Glenn William I'i's killing, with early reporting describing them as awaiting charges at that time.
