The alleged assailant and the victim of a machete attack both face charges after a family disturbance escalated into a confrontation with two officers.
Update Friday Oct. 25: The 18-year-old male was released pending investigation and the 23-year-old male was released pending charges, the Honolulu Police Department confirmed.
Honolulu police responding to a call about a family disturbance shot an 18-year-old man after he ignored commands from officers and refused to drop a machete, Police Chief Joe Logan said Monday.
The suspect was shot in the upper torso but has been released from the hospital and arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. A 23-year-old man injured by the machete was detained and faced a charge of abusing a family member in Waipahu.
The teenage suspect was slashing at the man accused of abuse when he was shot by a police officer at around 7.25 p.m. Sunday, Logan said.
The 18-year-old fell to the ground and was disarmed and provided with medical attention. His wound is not life-threatening and he remains under a doctor’s care while incarcerated, Logan said.

The 23-year-old victim of the machete attack suffered defensive wounds to his arm. He was also treated and is in custody on suspicion of abuse of a household member.
That charge stems from the original call that brought HPD to the scene of the shooting.
Two officers from Pearl City had been called to an apartment on Aniani Place in Waipahu at around 7 p.m. Sunday in response to reports of possible abuse.
Logan said the 23-year-old had been involved in a disturbance with a 22-year-old adult female relative of the 18-year-old man and had left the apartment only to be confronted by another woman from the same household who struck him with a walking stick, Logan said.
The officers were walking from their vehicle toward the pair when the 18-year-old man came out of a driveway wielding a machete. “He was swinging at the 23-year-old male who was now backing away,” Logan said.
One officer drew a firearm and the other a Taser. After repeated commands to drop the machete were ignored, one of the officers fired.
There wasn’t time to deploy the Taser against the suspect, Logan said, adding that both officers had activated their body cameras and neither was injured.
The officers from Pearl City have 10 and 16 years of experience and have been offered administrative leave pending an internal investigation, Logan said.
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