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Witnesses Describe Pali Shooting

Workers, Golfers Took For Cover As Bullets Flew

POSTED: 3:04 pm HST January 8, 2004
UPDATED: 11:09 am HST January 9, 2004

Eyewitnesses Thursday described moments of terror during the shooting at the Pali Golf Course Wednesday that left two men dead and another critically injured.

Pali Golf CourseBullets were flying in the parking lot and right outside the golf course pro shop.

The day after a deadly shooting at Pali golf course, golfers were back on the fairways. At first glance it looked like a normal day, but if you look closer, blood remains in the parking lot and there are bullet holes in the pro shop windows.

"We were hitting balls over there and all of a sudden we heard these pops," witness Mohammad Ali said.

Ali was practicing his swing when the shooting erupted in the nearby parking lot.

bullet hole "The guy was firing shots at him and he's screaming and he's running downstairs and then all of a sudden he goes up and he fires two shots at the clubhouse. And we saw two guys running in over here and he followed the guy right in and fired two pops. Pop. Pop," Ali said.

Three people were in the pro shop when shots were fired right outside. The pro shop manager saw the shooter through the window as he pulled out his gun and fire two to three shots at one of the victims who was walking down the corridor outside.

"He just stopped raised his arm and started shooting at that second man," pro shop manager Les Miwa said. "Well, everything happened so fast and there was a customer right in front of me too. I just said, 'Duck you guys! He's shooting!' and went for the phone."

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Miwa was standing just feet from where two bullets hit the pro shop window. He noticed the first victim walk by, but didn't realize he was shot. Miwa also saw the third victim walk past the window and sit down on a nearby bench.

"While we were waiting for the ambulance outside, I kept my eye on the guy on the bench. He was bleeding. (He was) shot in the leg and I believe in the chest. He was just sitting there, I asked him, 'Are you OK?' He didn't respond. I told him, 'Hang on the ambulance is coming,'" Miwa said.

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