- The incident occurred at some point at Sunset Memorial Park on Oahu
- Volunteers discovered the desecrated remains while cutting grass this weekend
- They said an empty cement box was found inside one of the tombs and a pile of bones and bone fragments were dumped in another tomb nearby
- Police are investigation the incident as a ‘desecration’
Vandals broke into a Hawaii cemetery tomb and scattered someone’s remains, prompting a police investigation.
Hawaii News Now reported Monday that volunteers cutting grass at Sunset Memorial Park, on Oahu, found the desecrated remains this past weekend.
The volunteers said an empty cement box was found inside one of the tombs and a pile of bones and bone fragments were dumped in another tomb nearby.
Vandals broke into a mausoleum at Sunset Memorial Park, a cemetery on the island of Oahu in Hawaii, and scattered someone’s remains (pictured is a general view of the cemetery)
‘What person in their mind would to something like this?’ a volunteer told Hawaii News Now.
The incident is the latest of a string of vandalism and homelessness issues at the cemetery.
And because Sunset Memorial Park doesn’t have regular maintenance workers or security guards, it’s unclear when the desecration happened.
Hawaii News Now reports that the cemetery’s owner ran out of money to maintain the facility years ago.
Lui Moefu, who has family buried at Sunset Memorial Park, says the cemetery would be brought back to ‘how beautiful it was before’ if the city or state were to get involved.
Police are investigation the incident as a ‘desecration’.
‘What person in their mind would to something like this?’ a volunteer who discovered the heinous action told Hawaii News Now (pictured is a general view of the cemetery)