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Thomas H.K. McCandless Jr.

Case from Haleiwa, HI dated Sep 29, 2018

Victim Details

Thomas H.K. McCandless

Male

White / Caucasian

Haleiwa

HI

2018-09-29

40

Thomas

H.K. McCandless Jr.

07/11/2026

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Thomas H.K. McCandless Jr., 40, a White man, died in Haleiwa, Hawaiʻi on September 29, 2018.

In the aftermath of that night, investigators treated his death as a fatal shooting, and attention soon narrowed to a North Shore man named Kaden Kanae. Authorities accused Kanae of being the gunman and filed a second-degree murder charge along with multiple weapons-related offenses tied to the same incident.

But the case never settled into a clean, uncontested narrative. Reporting later ...
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  • http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com: Father killed in Haleiwa in another overnight shooting; suspect in custody
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