Death by Cop- 2024

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Albert Lauro Jr.

Gender : Male

Age : 57

Race : Indigenous Hawaiian

Date : 07/19/2024

Location : Kapoho

City : Hilo

County : Hawaii

State : Hawaii

Agency : Hawaii Police Department

Officer(s) :Not Disclosed

Cause of Death : Gunshot

Event : Suicide under police duress

OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :

Believed to have committed a 1991 murder of teenager Dana Ireland on Big Island, three men were wrongly convicted. One of them served 20 years until DNA testing of old evidence resulted in him being exonerated. Police then had the original DNA match and tested an object Albert Lauro Jr. discarded and had a match. When police arrived to formally interview and arrest him, he committed suicide under police duress.

 

SOURCE LINKS :

https://fox59.com/news/national-world/hawaii-man-killed-self-after-police-took-dna-sample-in-virginia-womans-1991-killing/

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/dana-ireland-rape-murder-suspect-hawaii-kills-himself-police-rcna164212

https://www.whio.com/news/national/suspect-cold-case/ZXZ5OF5MX5QHGDFXCXJXSNSAXA/