Theodore Cabos Jr., a 62-year-old White male from Kula, Maui, went out hunting with family on the morning of November 24, 2013, and never came home. Authorities said the group was on Haleakalā Ranch property at the end of Līpoa Street in Kīhei when, around 11:36 a.m., a firearm being carried by another member of the hunting party accidentally discharged. The shot struck Cabos in the head, and he was pronounced dead at the scene. Public reports described the death from the start not as an ambush or a targeted killing, but as a devastating hunting accident that unfolded in an instant during what should have been an ordinary day in the field.
In the immediate aftermath, Maui police said their preliminary investigation found no foul play, though they also made clear that the case remained under investigation at that time because it involved a fatal shooting. The person connected to the gun was publicly described only as another member of the group, and the reports available online did not identify that individual by name. The picture that emerged from the public record was one of a sudden, tragic discharge rather than a confrontation, robbery, or planned act of violence.
As for arrests, suspects, or later criminal proceedings, the online sources I found do not show any public report of an arrest, a named suspect, filed charges, a trial, or a conviction connected to Cabos's death. Instead, the case has continued to be described in public-facing summaries as an apparent or accidental shooting during a family hunting outing. Later obituary notices focused on Cabos's life rather than any criminal case, identifying him as a Kahului Trucking & Storage auto body painter who was born in Puunene and survived by his wife, children, sister, and grandchildren. In the public record that remains easiest to find online, his death reads less like a mystery than a family tragedy that ended in a single irreversible moment on ranch land above Kīhei.
