A Democratic candidate for Congress who was knocked out during a filmed confrontation on a Maui beach is now facing felony allegations across three separate criminal cases, including claims that he menaced a county worker with what looked like a firearm and attacked a hospital nurse.
Kirill Basin, 40, has been charged with two counts of first-degree terroristic threatening stemming from the Aug. 1 incident at Keawakapu Beach in South Kihei.
Footage of the Maui beach altercation shows a dispute over music intensifying after Basin pushed Kama Homan and then swung a beach chair in his direction. Homan shoved the chair aside before striking Basin, leaving him unconscious.
According to a criminal complaint, Basin later threatened Homan with a knife. During a court appearance Tuesday, the judge kept Basin’s bail set at $1 million, ordered him to stay away from Homan and four other people, and prohibited him from going to Keawakapu Beach or its parking area.
Kirill Basin, right, is seen confronting another man during a video-recorded altercation at Keawakapu Beach on Maui. (Credit: Maile Stiller-Elliott via Storyful)
The viral beach confrontation, however, was not Basin’s only encounter with the criminal justice system this year.
Four days after the Keawakapu Beach arrest, prosecutors cited the new case as they moved to revoke Basin’s bail in a separate matter in which he is accused of assaulting a nurse at Maui Memorial Medical Center.
Prosecutors also alleged that Basin threatened people at the beach, telling them, “I’ll put you in the ground” and “I’ll kill you.”
He then allegedly reached into a small black bag and said, “Do I have a gun? I’ll kill you,” before producing and brandishing a knife as a beachgoer tried to de-escalate the confrontation, the Aug. 5 court filing says.
In the new beach case, Judge Christopher Dunn found probable cause to support a first-degree terroristic-threatening charge, the filing says. In the separate hospital-assault case, a judge issued a $400,000 bench warrant.
That filing connected the beach confrontation to a criminal case that had been pending since June, extending a court record that began months before Basin was knocked unconscious on the sand.
Hawaii Democratic congressional candidate Kirill Basin is seen during a confrontation with beachgoers at Keawakapu Beach on Maui before his arrest on felony terroristic threatening charges. (Credit: Maile Stiller-Elliott via Storyful)
Basin’s first court case this year began May 2, when police arrested him on a disorderly-conduct charge. Prosecutors say he fought or threatened people, made too much noise or used offensive language, even after he was told to stop.
Later that month, a Maui grand jury indicted Basin on two counts of first-degree terroristic threatening over a May 29 encounter with a County of Maui employee.
Kirill Basin is seen near beach chairs during the confrontation at Keawakapu Beach that ended with his arrest on felony terroristic threatening charges. (Credit: Maile Stiller-Elliott via Storyful)
Prosecutors alleged in a July court filing that Basin pulled a tan-and-green handgun from a backpack and made threats involving the weapon while two other county employees watched.
“On May 29, 2026, [Basin] approached a County of Maui employee … pulled out a tan and green colored handgun from his backpack, and made verbal threats about using the handgun,” prosecutors wrote.
“Further, two other County of Maui employees were also present and both felt threatened for their lives due to [Basin’s] actions,” the filing said.
Basin’s lawyers sharply disputed that version. In a later filing, they said police reports and surveillance footage showed Basin briefly displayed a muzzle-down pellet gun, did not point it at anyone and told witnesses to call police.
Within two weeks, Basin was facing a second felony case, this one over an alleged encounter at Maui Memorial Medical Center.
Basin was charged with second-degree assault and two counts of harassment after the hospital incident.
Prosecutors wrote that Basin had been admitted to Maui Memorial’s behavioral-health unit for evaluation, became aggressive and attempted to leave the emergency room before discharge. When nurses tried to restrain him, prosecutors alleged, Basin kicked one of them in the thigh.
Basin pleaded not guilty. On July 20, the court granted his request to leave Hawaii for inpatient treatment in Arizona, subject to conditions that included surrendering his passport, following a court-approved itinerary and appearing remotely for hearings.
By July 27, the court was told Basin was in the Maui Recovery program in Lahaina. But after the Aug. 1 beach arrest, the court issued a $400,000 bench warrant in the hospital-assault case as prosecutors sought to revoke his bail.
News Outlet has requested Maui Police Department reports, body-camera footage, dispatch audio, witness statements and evidence logs tied to the four criminal incidents. News Outlet also reached out to Basin’s attorney, Brandon Segal, for comment.
