{"id":51488,"date":"2017-06-14T15:51:36","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T22:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=51488"},"modified":"2017-06-14T15:51:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T22:51:36","slug":"aikau-family-suffers-possible-murder-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=51488","title":{"rendered":"Aikau Family Suffers Possible Murder-Suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-51489\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/web1_20170614-GERALD-AND-REEF-AIKAU-121x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"121\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/web1_20170614-GERALD-AND-REEF-AIKAU-121x200.jpg 121w, http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/web1_20170614-GERALD-AND-REEF-AIKAU.jpg 262w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 121px) 100vw, 121px\" \/>Sad news from Pauoa, Hawaii. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.staradvertiser.com\/2017\/06\/13\/breaking-news\/man-boy-dead-in-apparent-murder-suicide-in-pauoa\/\"><em><strong>The Star Advertiser<\/strong><\/em><\/a> is reporting that&nbsp;<strong>Gerald Aikau<\/strong>, 42, the nephew of big wave surfing legend <strong>Eddie Aikau<\/strong>, was found dead on the Aikau family property the morning of June 13, 2017. Inside a cottage his 7-year-old son Reef was also found dead.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Police are investigating the deaths as a murder-suicide, pending the outcome of autopsies by a medical examiner. . .&nbsp;Myra said his [Gerald&#8217;s] uncle <strong>Clyde Aikau<\/strong> discovered Gerald\u2019s body hanging from a tree and tried to resuscitate him but was unsuccessful.&nbsp;Clyde went into the cottage and found Reef and tried unsuccessfully to try to revive his nephew as well.&nbsp;Police, who received a call from the house at 5:45 a.m., said both the man and boy suffered \u201cmultiple injuries\u201d with the boy injured by a sharp object.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gerald and his wife Katherine Bullock Aikau were reportedly in the middle of a rough divorce. Our thoughts are with Clyde, Myra, Katherine, and the entire Aikau family.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.staradvertiser.com\/2017\/06\/13\/breaking-news\/man-boy-dead-in-apparent-murder-suicide-in-pauoa\/\">The Star Advertiser<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sad news from Pauoa, Hawaii. The Star Advertiser is reporting that&nbsp;Gerald Aikau, 42, the nephew of big wave surfing legend Eddie Aikau, was found dead on the Aikau family property the morning of June 13, 2017. Inside a cottage his 7-year-old son Reef was also found dead.&nbsp; Police are investigating the deaths as a murder-suicide, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51488"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51490,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51488\/revisions\/51490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}