Suspect in man’s death surrenders to police
A 21-year-old Hilo man suspected of killing a 44-year-old man during a fight outside a sports bar turned himself in Monday morning to Hawaii County police.
Police arrested the Mountain View man at 10:07 a.m. on suspicion of second-degree murder, but he has not been charged.
Police said the suspect and Roy Williams Jr. were involved in an altercation early Saturday morning when Williams fell and hit his head on the pavement. Williams was taken to Hilo Medical Center and later transported to the Queen’s Medical Center in Honolulu, where he died Sunday night from his injuries.
The suspect is being held at the Hilo police cellblock, but had not been charged as of Monday.
Anyone with information is asked to call Detective Reed Mahuna at 961-2384 or the nonemergency police number at 935-3311. Anonymous tipsters may call CrimeStoppers at 961-8300 or 329-8181 in Kona.
Wahiawa man, 23, faces assault charges
A 23-year-old Wahiawa man, who allegedly attacked two police officers trying to break up a street fight in Whitmore Village Saturday, was charged with assault.
Jonah Mailo appeared in Honolulu District Court on Monday morning on first- and second-degree assault charges on law enforcement officers.
Police were breaking up a fight on the street at about 10:40 p.m. and were separating people when Mailo allegedly tackled one officer, causing the officer to fall head first in the road, police said. The officer was taken to a hospital in serious but stable condition.
Mailo tried to flee when he allegedly struck a second officer in the face, causing minor injuries, police said.
Air Force sergeant is charged in shooting
Prosecutors charged a 33-year-old Air Force sergeant Monday night with two counts of attempted second-degree murder and weapons charges in an early morning shooting Saturday outside a Pearl City strip club.
Air Force Tech Sgt. Claude Custard of Ewa Beach allegedly shot at two 24-year-old men Saturday morning and turned himself in at the main police station 8:40 p.m. Saturday after tips received by CrimeStoppers. He is being held in lieu of $250,000 bail. Hawaii Public Radio reported Custard is a tech sergeant stationed at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.
Police said Custard had an argument with a man in the Princess Palace strip club at the Pearl City Business Plaza which spilled out into the back parking lot at 803 Kamehameha Highway shortly after 2 a.m. Custard then allegedly fired a handgun as one of the two men drove off, striking one man in the body multiple times and critically injuring him, then fired at and missed a second man, police said. He then fled the scene.
