2 killed in glider crash are ID’d
Kauai police have identified the passenger killed in Tuesday’s light sport aircraft crash in Waiakamoo Valley in Polihale as Mark McKenzie, 53, of Pickering, Ontario.
Also, police also identified the pilot as Gerry Charlebois, 54, of Kapahi. On Tuesday, friends identified the pilot as Charlebois, owner of Birds in Paradise.
Kauai County officials were alerted by a caller to a fire and smoke caused by the crash on the side of a mountain near Polihale Beach at about 9 a.m.
Ian Gregor, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman, said the ultralight Evolution Trikes Revo aircraft crashed under unknown circumstances.
Guard, DOE sued in sex case
The family of a 14-year-old girl impregnated by a security guard at Kailua Intermediate School is suing the former guard and the Department of Education for negligence.
Attorneys for the girl’s mother filed suit Thursday in Circuit Court, alleging the school failed to take necessary precautions to protect the girl from the guard’s sexual misconduct.
According to a police affidavit, Anthony Romualdo, 22, was a security guard when he met the girl, a student at the school, in May 2012. They communicated through Facebook, and the two had sex repeatedly, including in Romualdo’s truck in March 2013.
The suit says because of his supervisory role, Romualdo was able to exercise influence and control over the girl, who gave birth in October.
The DOE has said Romualdo was fired after reports that he was text-messaging students.
Romualdo, now free under supervised release, is awaiting trial for three counts of first-degree sexual assault.
NEIGHBOR ISLANDS
Body identified as man missing since November
Human remains found Monday in South Kohala have been identified through dental records as Robert K.L. Ryder, 37, of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii County police said Thursday.
On Jan. 17, Ryder’s family reported that they had not heard from him since Thanksgiving.
During an autopsy Wednesday, the medical examiner determined that the cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head and that the manner of death was homicide.
Detectives are investigating the case as a murder, police said.
Detectives located the human remains at about 5:30 p.m. Monday on vacant land between Puako Beach Drive and Queen Kaahumanu Highway.
1 wounded, another dead after argument
Hawaii County police are investigating an attempted murder and suicide in Kau.
Police said two men who live in separate houses in the Hawaiian Ocean View Estates subdivision got into an argument at about 7 p.m. Wednesday.
The 48-year-old suspect allegedly followed the victim, a 37-year-old man, into the victim’s home and shot him. He then stepped out of the house and fatally shot himself, police said. The shootings occurred on Tiki Lane at the intersection with Luau Drive.
The victim was flown to Kona Community Hospital, then transferred to the Queen’s Medical Center, where he is in critical but stable condition.
