Authorities on Hawaii Island have found the body of a guy who was last seen in Nino sitting precariously near the edge of an 80-foot waterfall.
Hawaii News Now, or HILO Authorities on Hawaii Island have located and positively identified the remains of a man who was last seen over the weekend, they believe, perilously perched near the edge of an 80-foot waterfall in Ninole.
Officials declared on Thursday that he had been positively recognised as Hilo resident Andrew Jeffrey Salonia, 35.
in Sunday morning, at approximately 10:40 a.m., the body was discovered by the authorities in the riverbed beneath the waterfall. According to officials, it was sunk six feet below the surface.
They think he is the individual who was the subject of a report on missing persons submitted on Saturday night.
Hawaii News Now, or HILO Authorities on Hawaii Island have located and positively identified the remains of a man who was last seen over the weekend, they believe, perilously perched near the edge of an 80-foot waterfall in Ninole.
Officials declared on Thursday that he had been positively recognised as Hilo resident Andrew Jeffrey Salonia, 35.
in Sunday morning, at approximately 10:40 a.m., the body was discovered by the authorities in the riverbed beneath the waterfall. According to officials, it was sunk six feet below the surface.
They think he is the individual who was the subject of a report on missing persons submitted on Saturday night.
According to officials, the missing person’s boss, a man from Hilo, was the one who started the report. He reported to the police that he hadn’t seen or spoken to his employee since that afternoon at 2:30.
He claimed the 35-year-old man was alleged to be inebriated when he was last spotted sitting on the waterfall’s edge. Additionally, according to authorities, the individual disregarded multiple orders from his employer to leave the brink of the waterfall.
The employer went back out to check on the man by the waterfall during garden maintenance, but the man was nowhere to be seen, according to the police.
After that, the employer took a car to Hilo to make a report for a missing individual. When the police arrived, they made an effort to locate Salonia’s body but were unable Fire rescue crews were not deployed due to safety concerns of a nighttime search, officials added.
Police didn’t announce that detectives had discovered his body in the water below until the following morning. The man was brought to the Hilo Benioff Medical Centre so that his passing could be announced.
While the toxicology report is still pending, the cause of death was judged to be drowning. The inquiry is still underway.
Police want anyone with information about this incident to contact Detective Kimo Keli’ipa’akaua by email at or by phone at (808) 961-2375.
