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Hawaii community feared triple-murder suspect would ‘show up at their house with a machete’

NBC News Top Stories·Tim Stelloh·3 days ago
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The video shows a shirtless, shoeless man meandering down a dirt driveway with a dog at his side. As vehicles drive by on a nearby road, he can be seen dropping to the ground. The video, captured Thursday afternoon on a security camera on Hawaii’s Big Island, prompted the property owner to call 911 immediately. To Mark Wyatt, who with his partner owns the 4-acre parcel in the rural Puna District, the man’s identity seemed clear. Although his face wasn’t visible, it looked like Jacob Baker, a onetime neighbor who was now a suspect in a series of killings. He was the subject of an intense manhunt and a wave of fear across Wyatt’s normally quiet, tight-knit stretch of Hawaii’s east coast. Within an hour of making his 911 call, Wyatt told NBC News, he got a call from a police officer. Baker had been apprehended, he recalled the officer saying. “It was a big relief,” said Wyatt, 61.…

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