HAWAI'I BRIEFS
H-2 crash kills woman, 25
Advertiser Staff
A 25-year-old Mililani woman died yesterday following an early morning car crash on the H-2 Freeway just past the Ka Uka Boulevard overpass in Waipi'o.
The woman, identified by the medical examiner's office as Elisha Kikuta, was pronounced dead at 3:01 a.m. at Kaiser Permanente's Moanalua Medical Center. The crash was reported to police at 1:20 a.m. No other vehicles or people were involved, police said.
Police vehicular homicide investigator Sgt. Michael Brede said Kikuta was driving south on the H-2 Freeway in a blue 2000 Ford Taurus when she apparently lost control of the car, which struck a guardrail and flipped over.
An autopsy is scheduled today to determine cause of death.
BIG ISLAND
NO FOUL PLAY IN MAN'S DEATH
Big Island police do not suspect foul play in the death of a 61-year-old man who was found face-down Saturday night on the road below Waipi'o Lookout, said Hamakua police Sgt. Joe Lally.
The case was classified as an unattended death and a coroner's inquest is scheduled for tomorrow.
Emergency Medical Services personnel from the Honoka'a Fire Station arrived at the scene at 9:30 p.m. and found the man in cardiac arrest with extensive facial injuries. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Hawai'i County Base Station.
Police are not releasing the name of the man until relatives on the Mainland are notified.
KAILUA
MOTORIST FIRES ON 3 PEOPLE IN CAR
Police opened an attempted-murder investigation after a motorist fired a gunshot at three people in another car early yesterday morning near 'Aikahi Shopping Center. No one was injured in the 1:55 a.m. incident on Kane'ohe Bay Drive and 'Ilihau Street.
Two men, ages 23 and 22, and a woman, 23, told police that a man in a blue Honda Civic twice pulled alongside their car and challenged them to a fight. The trio ignored the first challenge and drove off. While driving off after the second rebuked challenge, the challenger got out of his car, took out a pistol and fired a shot through the rear windshield of the fleeing car.
The shooter's face was covered with a blue bandanna, police said.
O'AHU
POLICE QUESTION FOSTER CAREGIVER
A 50-year-old O'ahu woman was arrested by police for questioning Friday about the alleged abuse of five foster children who had been placed in her care by the state.
The woman was booked for investigation of seven counts of second-degree assault and four counts of abuse of a household member at 6 p.m.
She was released without charges.
The alleged abuses occurred at various times in 2004 and 2005 against three boys, ages 15, 14 and 8, and two girls, 13 and 11.
WAIKIKI
MAN CHARGED IN THEFT, ASSAULT
A 30-year-old man has been charged with second-degree theft and assault for allegedly stealing a sub sandwich from a 49-year-old man and striking a would-be Good Samaritan with an electric guitar during a foot chase Friday on Kalakaua Avenue.
Shad Flowers was charged Saturday and is being held in lieu of $40,000 bail.
The 24-year-old man hit with the guitar was taken to The Queen's Medical Center with unspecified injuries. Police did not know his condition.
STATEWIDE
MARATHONER JOINS U.S. HOUSE RACE
Joe Zuiker, a community organizer, has filed papers to run in the Democratic primary for the U.S. House in the 2nd Congressional District.
A marathon runner, Zuiker plans to run across the district to promote his campaign. "Because I believe the high cost of elections and the need to take contributions from special interests will destroy our country if not corrected, I have chosen to limit all contributions to my campaign to $200 or less," he said in a statement.
'ALEWA
FAULTY EQUIPMENT CUTS POWER TO 200
A faulty transformer left an estimated 200 customers in 'Alewa Heights without power for much of yesterday.
Hawaiian Electric Co. was replacing the transformer yesterday, but in the meantime "a couple hundred customers" had no electricity for more than nine hours, HECO spokesman Peter Rosegg said. The outage was reported about noon.
HONOLULU
ALS SEMINAR TO BE HELD MAY 20
The Muscular Dystrophy Association will hold a seminar on ALS on May 20 from 9 a.m. to noon at the Queen's Conference Center, 510 S. Beretania St.
ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, destroys nerve cells that control muscles, causing paralysis and death. The seminar will offer information on improving patient care as well as how to ease burdens on caregivers.
The seminar is free and open to the public. For more information about the seminar, contact Jennifer Li at the MDA's Honolulu office at 593-4454 or jli@mdausa.org.
MARYKNOLL HONORS COMMUNITY WORK
Maryknoll School presented Dr. Gabriel Wai Chiu Ma with its Kekumano Award and Maryknoll junior Jason Leong-Yep with its Kekumano Scholar award at the 2006 Monsignor Charles Kekumano Award and Scholarship dinner recently.
Ma is an orthopedic and spine surgeon and the inventor of patented surgical procedures and devices used worldwide.
Leong-Yep was selected by high school faculty members because of his volunteer work, including campus ministry, and spending time with grade school students in spiritual retreats.
Correction: Shad Flowers, 30, has been charged with second-degree theft and assault.
