Nainoa Damon, the 22-year-old son of a Honolulu police officer, was sentenced today to life in prison with the possibility of parole for the first-degree murder of Haaheo Kolona in connection with a botched robbery in 2022.

District Judge Shanlyn Park denied the state’s request for an extended sentence, which would have meant life in prison without the possibility of parole.

She ordered a minimum sentence of 15 years for the murder charge, to be served concurrently with a 20-year sentence for two Class A weapons offenses and first-degree robbery, a 10-year sentence for a Class B weapons offense, and a 5-year sentence for first-degree terroristic threatening.

He was also ordered to pay Kolona’s mother $3,900 in restitution.

Blake Kolona, ​​the victim’s father, shouted after the judge sentenced Damon: “Fifteen years?” he asked her. “I’m not happy with that, I tell you that respectfully, Judge.”

He claimed that the court was corrupt and that the judge did not extend the sentence because Damon’s mother was a police sergeant.

On May 14, Damon was found guilty of shooting then-18-year-old Kolona in Round Top Drive in 2022. Damon, who was 19 at the time of the crime, robbed a group of more than a dozen people at gunpoint, ordered them to empty their pockets, and attempted to rip a gold chain from Edward Aiden Curti’s neck. More than a dozen eyewitnesses correctly identified Damon as the shooter.