Suspect charged in ex-friend’s murder
Police charged a 23-year-old Makaha man Friday night with second-degree murder in the shooting death of his one-time friend, 26-year-old Christopher K. Medeiros.
Chad Duran also faces three firearms charges. He was being held in lieu of $750,000 bail.
Duran allegedly shot Medeiros in the head Wednesday night at Medeiros’ Makaha apartment on Lahaina Street. A neighbor brought Medeiros to the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center. Paramedics picked him up and transported him in critical condition to the Queen’s Medical Center, where he died Thursday.
Duran, who lives three streets away from Medeiros on Noholio Road, was found and arrested shortly after the shooting on suspicion of attempted murder.
North Shore diver treated for the bends
Fire rescue personnel responded Saturday to a disabled vessel with a diver suffering from the bends a half-mile off Shark’s Cove on Oahu’s North Shore, a fire official said.
The 17- to 18-foot boat experienced engine trouble about 1:55 p.m. and a local man in his 50s suffered from the bends, likely from not properly decompressing, fire Capt. Carlton Yamada said.
Fire rescue crews got to the vessel, placed the man on the sled of a rescue watercraft and brought him to Aweoweo Beach Park in Mokuleia, where he was transferred to Emergency Medical Services personnel, Yamada said.
An ambulance took the diver in serious condition to Kuakini Medical Center for treatment in its hyperbaric chamber, officials said.
A boater used his vessel to tow the disabled boat to Haleiwa Small Boat Harbor.
The man and the boat operator were the only two on board, Yamada said.
1-year-old critical after nearly drowning
A 1-year-old boy was listed in extremely critical condition following a near-drowning incident in Haleiwa early Saturday evening.
The boy was with family members at a beach off Ka Waena Road, near the Rock Piles surf spot, when he apparently wandered into the ocean, said Fire Department spokesman Capt. Carlton Yamada.
HFD received the call at 5:56 p.m. While a rescue crew was en route to the beach, people at the beach found the child underwater. An off-duty lifeguard performed CPR on the unresponsive boy until firefighters arrived at 6:02 p.m.
The firefighters continued CPR until paramedics arrived and transported the child, still unresponsive, to Kahuku Medical Center, Yamada said.
