The 1996 Honolulu hostage crisis occurred on February 6, 1996, in Sand Island, Honolulu, Hawaii, when twenty-eight-year-old John Miranda took hostages at the Seal Masters of Hawaii building, his former place of employment. During the hostage crisis, two hostages were injured, one seriously. The hostage-taker was the only fatality during the crisis itself. His former girlfriend however, was found to have been murdered by him weeks later.