Family and friends of the women fatally shot late Saturday night, Aug. 31, in Waianae struggled with the loss of three loving, caring people who were devoted to the people in their lives. Family and friends of the women fatally shot late Saturday night, Aug.
31, in Waianae struggled with the loss of three loving, caring people who were devoted to the people in their lives. The city Department of the Medical Examiner on Wednesday, Sept. 4, identified the three women as 36-year-old Cherell Keamo, 34-year-old Courtney Raymond-Arakaki and 29-year-old Jessyca Amasiu.
Keamo died from a “gunshot wound of the head,” while Raymond-Arakaki and Amasiu both died of “multiple gunshot wounds,” according to the medical examiner. The violence on Waianae Valley Road reportedly began when members of the Keamo household asked a neighbor to stop cars from speeding past their home as they drove to and from a loud party at a nearby illegal commercial venue. The neighbor, 59-year-old Hiram James Silva Sr.
, operated the property where the party was being held. He responded to the complaints by shooting five people, killing the three women and critically injuring two other people. Raymond-Arakaki’s mother, Chermaine Raymond, 54, told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser she was not at the Keamo house that night, when they were having their own gathering of family and friends.
But she described it as just another typical family gathering that the Keamo household often hosted. Raymond said she was .