A 58-year-old man has died after he was struck by a car early Thursday in Ewa Beach.
Family members identified him as Larry Kalani, according to KHON2.
Shortly after 4:30 a.m., police said, a 26-year-old Ewa Beach man was traveling eastbound on Fort Weaver Road in a silver 2000 Toyota Camry when the vehicle struck a pedestrian who was in a marked crosswalk near Pohakupuna Road.
Lt. Ben Moszkowicz, acting captain of the Honolulu Police Department’s Traffic Division, said the driver was heading home from work at the time of the collision when he struck the pedestrian.
The victim was walking to the bus stop on Fort Weaver Road to head to work. Police said he sustained head and bodily injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Speed, alcohol and drugs were not involved.
Though the collision occurred during the early morning hours while it was still dark, Moszkowicz said the area is well lit with two bright LED street lights directly over the marked crosswalk. This is the sixth traffic-related fatality on Oahu compared with three at the same time last year.
Standoff suspect to go to trial in April
A 34-year-old man is set to go to trial after he was accused of shooting at police officers during a car chase in Waianae.
Frank Hampp appeared Thursday in Circuit Court via closed-circuit video link from the Oahu Community Correctional Center after an Oahu grand jury had indicted him with three counts of attempted first-degree murder and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
A deputy public defender pleaded not guilty to all charges on Hampp’s behalf. Circuit Judge Colette Garibaldi set his trial for April and confirmed his bail at $3 million.
On the night of Jan. 27, Hampp allegedly shot at police officers during a pursuit on Farrington Highway in Waianae. He then holed up in a friend’s apartment for more than 17 hours before surrendering to police. Hampp had been wanted on a no-bail warrant after he failed to show up in court two weeks earlier for two felony cases.
Trial date set for man in stabbing case
A circuit judge has set a trial date for a 22-year-old man accused of fatally stabbing a 23-year-old man in the parking lot of a Waipahu convenience store.
Aiven Angei appeared Thursday in Circuit Court via closed-circuit video link from the Oahu Community Correctional Center after an Oahu grand jury indicted him with second-degree murder in the death of Jonathan Makana Kanui-Flores.
A deputy public defender pleaded not guilty to the charge on Angei’s behalf. Circuit Judge Colette Garibaldi set his trial for April and confirmed his bail at $1 million.
During the early morning hours of Jan. 28, Kanui-Flores was with a friend in the 7-Eleven parking lot when Angei approached them and asked to buy marijuana. Kanui-Flores’s friend told him they were not drug dealers and to leave.
Angei got into a fight with Kanui-Flores, and Angei stabbed him once in the head and multiple times in the upper chest area. Kanui-Flores was transported in critical condition to The Queen’s Medical Center where he died a day later.