Press Watch — Honolulu Advertiser, June 18, 2009
Pregnant female shot in May; young male victim of ‘foul play’ in April
LIHU’E, Kaua’i — Federal officers are investigating the deliberate killings of two endangered Hawaiian monk seals on Kaua’i, and recently scoured a white pickup truck in search of a rifle believed to have been used to kill the monk seal known as RK06.
The officers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s law enforcement branch didn’t find a weapon in the June 9 search, documents in federal court in Honolulu indicate. But NOAA confirmed for the first time yesterday that RK06 was shot to death. […]