Former OCCC officer found guilty of murdering his mother

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A judge on Tuesday found a former Oahu Community Correctional Center officer guilty of murdering his mother.

Evidence presented at trial showed Anthony Pereira II held his mother, 66-year-old Barbara Pereira, against her will and shot her multiple times at his home in Maili in June 2016.

When police arrived, they found Pereira in the garage with a gun and his mother dead on the floor.

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Evidence showed Pereira also threatened another woman at gunpoint, but that woman was able to escape.

Pereira’s attorney reportedly argued that Pereira was under extreme mental and emotional stress after mistakenly thinking his mother had killed his daughter and his wife, who he found out was having affairs.

Pereira, 52, was also found guilty of kidnapping, terroristic threatening, felony firearms offenses and a felony drug charge.

He is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 2.