Honolulu, Hawaii: Police Hunt Gunman Who Carjacked a 19-Year-Old at Kapiolani Community College

Honolulu police are hunting a man who pulled a handgun on a 19-year-old man in the parking lot of Kapiolani Community College on Monday morning, demanded his belongings, took his car and fled, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser and Hawaii News Now reported. No injuries were reported.

Police said the carjacking happened at about 10:50 a.m. on Monday, November 9, in the college parking lot. The 19-year-old man was approached from behind by an unknown man armed with a handgun. The suspect demanded the man's personal belongings, then took his vehicle and fled the area, police said in the account both outlets carried on Monday.

The car police are looking for

The stolen car is a blue 2005 Toyota Celica, police said. The suspect was described as an unknown man wearing a hoodie and a white face mask. After the carjacking, the car was last seen heading east on Diamond Head Road toward Kahala, according to the police account shared with the public on Monday.

Kapiolani Community College sits on Diamond Head Road, below the Diamond Head crater, and its parking lots fill and empty through the school day. The carjacking happened at 10:50 a.m. on a Monday, and police released the car and suspect descriptions the same day, so drivers and residents on the east side of Honolulu could watch for the Celica.

What police ask the public to do

Anyone with information about the carjacking is asked to call 911 or CrimeStoppers at 808-955-8300, police said. The description to watch for is narrow: a blue 2005 Toyota Celica, and a suspect described only as a man in a hoodie and a white face mask. Police did not name the 19-year-old man, and the Monday reports carried no photo of the suspect or the car.

What is not yet known

The reports published on Monday did not announce an arrest, and police did not release a name for the suspect. Police also did not say in the Monday account whether the car had been recovered. The investigation is in the hands of the Honolulu Police Department, and the next facts, including any arrest or recovery of the Celica, will come from the department.

For the college, Monday's facts are plain and short. A young man lost his car at gunpoint in a campus parking lot late in the morning, the gunman drove east on Diamond Head Road, and as of the Monday reports he had not been caught.