HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) – A sailor fatally shot two civilian employees at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard on Wednesday and injured a third before killing himself.
The two victims who died, both men, were initially taken to hospitals in extremely critical condition. A third gunshot victim, a 36-year-old man, remains in guarded condition at the Queen’s Medical Center.
The identifies of those who died have not yet been released.
The shooting at Drydock 2 threw a tight-knit community into mourning. Non-essential shipyard employees were told to stay home from work Wednesday night and Thursday. Normal operations on base were set to resume Friday.