UPDATE

A man who barricaded himself in a busy Don Quijote store on Kaheka Street in Honolulu surrendered at 10:15 p.m. Wednesday after a five-hour standoff.

At 9:33 p.m., a loud bang resembling a lightning strike echoed from inside Don Quixote, but the standoff was not resolved until about half an hour later.

At 10 p.m., police officers released what appeared to be pepper spray or tear gas, hitting passers-by on Kaheka Street, many of whom began coughing violently.

Staff in hazmat suits and gas masks were sometimes seen leaving the supermarket through a side door.

At 10:15 p.m., the suspect emerged from the same door accompanied by two Honolulu Police Department officers.

The man sat on a fire truck for about seven minutes, repeatedly shouting, “Carrie, this is my lawyer,” before he was taken into custody.

The suspect was placed in an HPD vehicle at 10:25 p.m., which then left the scene.

The store was evacuated and closed shortly after an altercation with the man occurred in the liquor department after 5 p.m

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The Don Quijote Supermarket on Kaheka Street was forced to close around 5:45 p.m. Wednesday as at least a dozen police vehicles, EMS and Honolulu Fire Department trucks surrounded the area after a man barricaded himself in the store.

More than two hours later, at 8 p.m., sources on the scene said Honolulu police attempted to make contact with the man who had barricaded himself in the alcohol cooler.

Kainoa Sastra, a 23-year-old visitor from San Francisco, said he was shopping at the supermarket with a friend and using the self-checkout when a riot broke out in the liquor department around 5:05 p.m

“There were aggressive, loud, screaming noises,” Sastra said, adding that the disturbance was quickly followed by the sound of glass bottles breaking.

Sastra said other shoppers saw a person armed with a knife.

At around 6 p.m. the man barricaded himself in the supermarket. A video circulating on social media showed witnesses claiming the man threw alcohol bottles and started a fire in the store.

At 6:20 p.m., another group of HPD officers wearing tactical gear entered the building. At around 6:30 p.m., store staff said the man had locked himself in the freezer.