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HILO, Hawaii — Shanna Badon-Dellomes remembers the night last July when Hawaii County police officer Bronson Kaliloa was shot and killed on the side of the highway in Mountain View.
The Big Island police dispatcher and trainer was taking incoming calls for the Puna District when she received an internal call asking her to send officers to check out an abandoned vehicle off Highway 11. Badon-Dellomes sent four units. Kaliloa was one of the first to arrive.
What was believed to be a routine check turned into the fatal shooting of Kaliloa and an islandwide search for suspect, Justin Waiki. During the entire incident, Badon-Dellomes kept track of all responding personnel, which included more than 89 officers on her board and documenting their transmissions.
