Kailua street reopened after sinkhole mess
The gateway into Kailua for traffic arriving from Honolulu has been reopened, city officials report.
Road crews finished coating about 200 feet of sewer pipe with a resin lining near the intersection of Kailua Road and Hamakua Drive, the last key step to fixing the sinkhole mess that clogged traffic in the area since July 11.
Crews finished that work early Sunday, according to Jesse Broder Van Dyke, a spokesman for Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell.
Last week they laid new pipe to replace the broken, corroded concrete pipe that burst, causing a sinkhole and prompting the closure of two Kailua-bound lanes.
The roadway still needs to be re-striped. It wasn’t immediately clear when that would take place.
Dead infant was murdered, officials report
Hawaii County police are investigating the suspicious death of an infant in November as a murder.
Police learned Nov. 25 that Fire Department rescue personnel had taken an unresponsive 18-month-old boy to the hospital with multiple bruises reportedly from a fall several days earlier. The infant was later transferred to the Queen’s Medical Center on Oahu in critical condition. He died Nov. 27.
The infant has been identified as Rylee Sele-Pang of Kailua-Kona.
Detectives had initially investigated the incident as a possible abuse case. Police deferred reclassifying it pending autopsy results.
The Honolulu Medical Examiner’s Office conducted extensive testing and analysis, which required the use of a mainland laboratory. On Wednesday, after receiving the results, the medical examiner determined that the cause of death was complications of blunt force injuries of the head, and police reclassified the case as murder. No arrests have been made.
Gunshot victim dies, changing criminal case
Hawaii County police have reclassified an attempted-murder case to murder because the victim in a July 3 shooting died over the weekend.
Todd Shaver, 52, died at about 7:45 p.m. Saturday at Kona Community Hospital, police said.
Monte Moreau, 44, of Honaunau was charged July 5 with second-degree attempted murder.
Police found Shaver on July 3 with a gunshot wound to his abdomen on the 85-5300 block of Highway 11 in Honaunau. Fire rescue personnel transported him in critical condition to the hospital.
