What started as an attempted-murder case earlier this year in Chinatown was resolved this morning as a first-degree assault conviction.

Hine Laloulu, 22, was sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to the assault charge.
Laloulu attacked Antonius Toloai in April on River Street near a makeshift memorial for another man who had been shot to death five days earlier in what authorities said was a turf war between rival criminal groups.
Laloulu’s victim, Antonius Toloai, testified in court in April that he was accosted by a group of seven individuals as he passed by the memorial for the murder victim, Joseph Peneueta.
He identified Laloulu. who is known as “Tiny,” as one of his attackers and said the defendant stabbed him in the stomach.
Toloai said he had arrived in Honolulu three months earlier.
Two men charged with murdering Peneueta, Iosefa Pasene and Zorro Rye, are originally from San Francisco, according to court records.
In a plea deal reached with prosecutors, Laloulu agreed to plead guilty to the assault charge.
Circuit Judge Michael Town accepted the plea agreement, which called for a sentence of probation.