Full Notification

Hawai’i Police Department
Area I Criminal Investigation Division
Captain Rio Amon-Wilkins
Phone: (808) 961-2251
Report No.: 24-036379

Media Release

Hawai’i Island police have charged 31-year-old Vasiliy Viktorovich Trubachev, of Kea‘au, with attempted murder, following the Hawaiian Paradise Park shooting incident on Friday morning, April 19, 2024, that left a 32-year-old man with multiple gunshot wounds.

On Sunday morning, April 21, 2024, after conferral with Hawai’i County Prosecutors, detectives with the Area I Criminal Investigation Section charged Trubachev with:

• Second-degree attempted murder, and
• Carrying or use of a firearm in the commission of a separate felony

Trubachev’s bail has been set at $1,100,000.

The charges against Trubachev stem from an incident reported on Friday morning, April 19, 2024, shortly before 11:00 a.m., when Puna patrol officers responded to an unknown type disturbance at a residence on 7^th Avenue, in Hawaiian Paradise Park. While responding to the scene, officers received information that a man had reportedly been shot during the altercation.  Upon arrival, officers learned that a male acquaintance of Trubachev had come to the residence where an altercation ensued; he reportedly threatened several individuals while armed with a knife and a glass bottle, prior to leaving the area on foot. While investigating at the scene, officers were informed by a passerby, that there was a male on the side of the roadway in the area of 6^th Avenue and Makuu Drive, who appeared injured and was bleeding. As officers went to investigate, they located the man who reported he had been shot multiple times by Trubachev.

Officers immediately began providing first aid to the man until Hawai’i Fire Department personnel arrived and transported the victim via ambulance to the Hilo Medical Center Emergency Room. As of this time, he remains hospitalized in stable condition.

Trubachev was arrested at the 7^th Avenue residence, without incident, and was transported to the East Hawai’i Detention Center pending investigation.       

Area I Criminal Investigation Section detectives responded to the scene to continue this investigation.

On Saturday afternoon, April 21, 2024, detectives served a search warrant at the 7^th Avenue home, and recovered miscellaneous evidence related to this incident. 

Police ask anyone who may have witnessed this incident to contact the police department’s non-emergency number at (808) 935-3311, or Detective Christopher Jelsma of the Area I Criminal Investigation Section at (808) 961-2386 or email at [email protected].