{"id":415833,"date":"2026-07-28T23:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T23:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/415833\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T23:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T23:38:10","slug":"3-teen-boys-arrested-in-bloody-anti-white-attack-on-california-family-at-hawaii-resort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/415833\/","title":{"rendered":"3 teen boys arrested in bloody ‘anti-white’ attack on California family at Hawaii resort"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police arrested a trio of teen boys as part of a vicious attack on a California family<\/a> at a luxury Maui resort that the victims say was motivated by race.<\/p>\n

The violent brawl broke out around 10 p.m. on July 17 at the Kaanapali Alii resort in West Maui, where local officers responded to a disturbance involving roughly 30 people near the property\u2019s pool that left at least one victim with a bloody head wound.<\/p>\n

One victim suffered a gash to his head. Sam Paradis<\/p>\n

The incident occurred at the Kaanapali Alii resort in West Maui.<\/p>\n

Seven visitors from California, ranging in age from 17 to 62, told police they were assaulted after a group of young people allegedly threw chairs and attacked members of their family, labeling them \u201chaole boys.\u201d <\/p>\n

The family believes they were singled out because they are white and urged investigators to pursue the case as a hate crime.<\/p>\n

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Police arrested four people total in the attack, which has not been classified as a hate crime.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Maui police arrested a 14-year-old Lahaina boy on suspicion of riot and assault in the second degree, a 16-year-old Wailuku boy on suspicion of riot and assault in the second degree; and a 16-year-old Lahaina boy on suspicion of riot.<\/p>\n

All three had been released from custody during the ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n

The violent brawl broke out around 10 p.m. on July 17. Kaanapali Alii Resort<\/p>\n

The latest collars came after the earlier arrest of a 20-year-old Makawao man on suspicion of assault in the second degree. That suspect was later released pending investigation.<\/p>\n

At least six victims suffered injuries in the attack that were serious enough to require medical treatment.<\/p>\n

Family member Joseph Headfield said the violence was preceded by racial threats from a woman he described as the group\u2019s \u201cringleader.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bloody attack sent six people to the hospital. Instagram\/Keppmauisafeforall<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were three females, one of which was the ringleader,\u201d\u00a0Headfield told Hawaii News Now<\/a>. \u201cShe got up in people\u2019s faces, said, \u2018We\u2019re going to beat up your boys tonight. We\u2019re going to beat up the haole boys.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHaole\u201d is a Hawaiian term for a person who is not of\u00a0Native Hawaiian<\/a>\u00a0or Polynesian descent and is commonly used to describe white people or non-locals.<\/p>\n

The victims\u2019 family want the incident classified as a hate crime.<\/p>\n

Maui Police Department spokeswoman Alana Pico said the investigation remains ongoing as officials continue to gather and review information.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the investigation finds evidence that this incident was motivated by bias, including racial bias, or involved gang-related criminal activity, those offenses will be charged as appropriate,\u201d Pico said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police arrested a trio of teen boys as part of a vicious attack on a California family at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,723,17871,16643,2289,14706,4182,72424,3586,43174,19159],"class_list":["post-415833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-crime","tag-fights","tag-hate-crimes","tag-hawaii","tag-maui","tag-metro","tag-resorts","tag-us-news","tag-vacation","tag-vacations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}