Jens David Magelssen

Jens David Magelssen, a 39-year-old White male and Honolulu police officer, was gravely wounded at his home in Honolulu on August 16, 2014, during what public reports consistently described as an accidental shooting. The story that emerged afterward was not one of a man found in the middle of a street crime or a hunt for an unknown killer, but of a sudden, devastating gunshot at a residence where he had been hosting a barbecue for visitors from the mainland. A later Honolulu Civil Beat account s ...

HPD mourns officer killed in accidental shooting

Accidental self-inflicted gunshot kills HPD officer