A man stabbed his 70-year-old grandmother 32 times at her Waialae Avenue apartment Friday morning, according to a police affidavit filed in court Monday.
Covered in blood, Charles Ian Keliiokekai Amoy, 19, went to his girlfriend’s University of Hawaii dormitory room and told her he had been in a knife fight, the affidavit said.
"(L)ater he related to her that his grandmother was stabbed, and that it must have been friends of the guy he won the knife fight with," the affidavit said.
Amoy was charged with second-degree murder Monday. Bail was set at $500,000.
He is in the hospital for treatment of an infection sustained when he bit his finger to the bone while he was in custody on a fourth-degree theft case in October.
His initial court appearance will be held as soon as he is released from the hospital, said Dave Koga, spokesman for the city Prosecutor’s Office.
Amoy was arrested Friday evening in the girlfriend’s bathroom, where police found a black glove, black shorts and several patches of a bloodlike substance on a counter. Police also found a black vest, a bedsheet and a hand towel that appeared to have bloodstains on it, the affidavit said.
It was unclear how the police tracked him down.
Neighbors reported seeing Aileen Amoy’s grandson run from the apartment building and climb over a fence.
They removed the louvers to get into the apartment and found the woman on the floor, covered with blood, a knife next to her, the affidavit said.
"Kelii stab me all over," she told them.
A surgeon at the Queen’s Medical Center emergency room counted 32 stab wounds, the affidavit said.
A neighbor said Aileen Amoy had lived in the three-story building at 3002 Waialae Ave. for more than 20 years and had always helped her grandson.
Should Charles Amoy be convicted, he could face an extended term of imprisonment for a felony crime against an elderly person, defined as someone over 60 years old.
