A 54-year-old pedestrian has died in a hit-and-run in Wailuku.
He has been identified as Floyd Nahinu Jr. of Wailuku.
Shortly after 7:50 p.m. Sunday, police said, a white pickup truck with an extended cab was being driven north on Waialae Road when it struck Nahinu, who was walking across the roadway.
The driver fled before police arrived.
Nahinu was transported in critical condition to Maui Memorial Medical Center, where he later died.
Police said it’s unknown whether excessive speed, drugs or alcohol were involved. The investigation is ongoing.
This is Maui county’s 13th traffic-related fatality this year, compared with 16 at the same time last year.
Anyone with information on the hit-and-run is asked to call police at 244-6400.
Would-be purse snatchers stab woman
Police are looking for two males after a 27-year-old woman sustained a stab wound to her shoulder when the culprits attempted to steal her purse in Hawaii Kai.
Just before 2:20 a.m. Sunday, police said, the victim and a 26-year-old man were walking home from a convenience store when the two suspects approached them from behind at the intersection of Pepeekeo Street and Pepeekeo Place.
The suspects attempted to grab the woman’s purse from her shoulder. Police said the victim held onto her purse, a struggle ensued and she sustained a stab wound to the front of her left shoulder.
The male victim sustained a 3-inch cut to his back.
Police said the suspects fled without the purse.
Puna man charged with stabbing housemate
A 32-year-old man has been charged in connection with a stabbing in Puna.
Michael Potee of Puna was charged Friday with second-degree assault. He was released after posting $2,000 bail and is scheduled to appear in court in November.
Just after 12:25 a.m. Thursday, police responded to a report of a man later identified as Potee allegedly stabbing a 34-year-old man at a home in the Hawaiian Paradise Park subdivision.
Both men live there.
The victim sustained stab wounds to his neck and was transported to Hilo Medical Center in serious but stable condition. He was later flown to The Queen’s Medical Center on Oahu, where he was upgraded to stable condition.
6 rescued off Maui in trio of incidents
Six people got into trouble on windy seas off Maui in separate incidents over the weekend.
On Saturday a 31-year-old woman and her young daughter encountered strong wind while stand-up paddling about 150 yards off Napili, according to a Maui Fire Department report. The girl’s father brought her back to shore on another stand-up board while a lifeguard brought the woman back on a watercraft.
On Sunday two women on a flotation device were unable to make it back to shore near the Royal Lahaina Resort. Surfers brought them back in before firefighters arrived.
But firefighters noticed a man and woman about a quarter-mile offshore who appeared to be having difficulty. A lifeguard used a rescue watercraft to bring both safely back in.
