The medical examiner identified a man who died in a car fire on the H-3 freeway earlier this month and a man whose body was recovered from the Kapalama Canal Wednesday.

The medical examiner said the 26-year-old man whose body was found at Kapalama Canal Wednesday was Starsky Nakamura, of Honolulu.

Firefighters recovered Nakamura’s body just before 8:30 a.m. under the bridge at Halona and Kohou streets

The cause of death is pending further tests. Police classified the case as an unattended death pending the results of the autopsy.

The medical examiner also identified 36-year-old man who was killed in a car fire Jan. 7 as Darren Iese, of Hauula.

Iese was driving a truck that caught on fire at 4 a.m. Jan. 7 in the Kaneohe-bound lane of the H-3 Freeway near the Hawaiian Cement plant.

When firefighters arrived, the vehicle was fully engulfed in flames. Firefighters discovered the badly burnt body after extinguishing the flames.

The cause of Iese’s death is defered, pending further tests.