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4-01-25 (Update #2) Police Identify Victim in Last Weekend’s Violent Murder of Elderly Woman in Hilo
An autopsy is scheduled to be performed on Friday, April 4, to determine Loebl’s exact cause of death.
Police ask anyone who may have witnessed this incident to contact Detective Duane Rapoza Jr., of the Area I Criminal Investigation Section, at (808) 961-2383, or via email at Duane.Rapoza@hawaiicounty.gov.
4-01-25 (Update #2) Police Identify Victim in Last Weekend’s Violent Murder of Elderly Woman in Hilo 
Hawai‘i Police Department
Area I Criminal Investigation Division
Captain Rio S. Amon-Wilkins
Phone: (808) 961-2251
Report No.: 25-028832
Media Release
Hawai‘i Island police have identified the victim of the violent early morning stabbing in Hilo, on Saturday morning, March 29, 2025, as 81-year-old Lola Linda Loebl, of Hilo.
On Sunday morning, March 30, the suspect in this case, 30-year-old Keoni Peter Tosie Brown was charged with the following offenses:
- Second-degree murder
- First-degree terroristic threatening
An autopsy is scheduled to be performed on Friday, April 4, to determine Loebl’s exact cause of death.
Police ask anyone who may have witnessed this incident to contact Detective Duane Rapoza Jr., of the Area I Criminal Investigation Section, at (808) 961-2383, or via email at Duane.Rapoza@hawaiicounty.gov.
Address/Location
Hawaii Police Department
349 Kapiolani St
Hilo, HI 96720
Contact
Emergency: 9-1-1
Non-emergencies: 808-935-3311