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Tyrone Torres, a 21-year-old man from Puna, Hawaiʻi, died on February 25, 2007, in a killing that unfolded first as a shooting and then as an apparent attempt to erase what had happened. Police later identified him as the body found inside a burned car in Lower Puna, near the shoreline in the Waʻa Waʻa area. Preliminary autopsy findings said he had been killed by a single shotgun blast to the head, making clear that the fire came after the fatal violence, not before.

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  • Puna murder (update No. 3 corrected) - Hawaii Police Department
  • Big Island man convicted of murder in 2007 shooting
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