State v. Metcalfe.

Opinion of the Court by

RECKTENWALD, C.J.

On the night of May 6, 2009, the Hawaii County Police Department received a 911 call from Defendant Kevin C. Metcalfe. Metcalfe stated that he had just fired a 12-gauge shotgun at a burglar on his property:

I told ‘em, ‘Get down.’ Then he says, ‘Ah, [ ] you.’ He said somethin’. I don’t know, and so I shot a round on the ground. I shot one, you know, away from him.

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He—he just kinda like came toward me so I shot again, and then he, I don’t know, blasted past me, and I[ ] shot again.

When a police officer arrived at Metcalfe’s house, he…