Malia Soma-Valmoja, a 30-year-old Native Hawaiian woman from Wahiawa, was killed on January 11, 2020 after a shooting in the Whitmore Village area. In the days that followed, her name spread through the community the way sudden violence always does on Oʻahu—first as urgent whispers, then as a public grief that refused to stay quiet. The Honolulu Medical Examiner's Office identified her after the fatal shooting, and for many who knew her, the confirmation turned fear into a different kind of p
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