Todd Shaver, a 52-year-old man from Honaunau, was gravely wounded on the evening of July 3, 2014, when police were called to a house on the 83-5300 block of Highway 11 in South Kona. Authorities said the home was being rented to several tenants, and when officers arrived they found Shaver suffering from a gunshot wound to the abdomen. He was rushed to Kona Community Hospital in critical condition, and what began as an attempted-murder investigation quickly cast a shadow over the quiet household
where multiple people had been living under the same roof.
In the first hours after the shooting, police identified another tenant, 44-year-old Monte Moreau of Honaunau, as the suspect. He was arrested at the scene on suspicion of attempted murder, and detectives later executed a search warrant at the residence and recovered a handgun. By July 5, police announced that Moreau had been formally charged with attempted second-degree murder, his bail was set at $100,000, and he was being held pending his initial court appearance. The picture painted by those early reports was of a violent eruption inside a shared living space, one that left Shaver fighting for his life while investigators worked to sort out exactly what had happened inside that home.
Shaver did not die on July 3. According to Hawaiʻi Island police, he remained hospitalized after the shooting and was pronounced dead at Kona Community Hospital at 7:45 p.m. on July 26, 2014. After his death, police reclassified the case from attempted murder to murder. Their update named him publicly and made clear that the shooting injuries had become fatal, turning what had already been a serious criminal case into a homicide investigation.
As for arrests and suspects, the online sources I found consistently identify Monte Moreau as the sole publicly named suspect and the man arrested at the scene. Police said he had been charged on July 5 with attempted second-degree murder and was being held at the Hawaiʻi Community Correctional Center awaiting trial. In the police update issued after Shaver’s death, authorities specifically noted that although the case had been reclassified as murder, Moreau had not yet been re-charged with second-degree murder at that point. I did not find a clearly accessible, reliable online source confirming a later trial result or conviction in this case, so the verified public record available from the sources I reviewed ends with Shaver’s death, the murder reclassification, and Moreau’s earlier arrest and attempted-murder charge.
