Posted on: Monday, October 1, 2001
One dead, one hurt in O'ahu stabbings
By Karen Blakeman
Advertiser Staff Writer
A 64-year-old grandmother is dead and a man in guarded condition after stabbings in Waipahu and Ala Moana Beach Park yesterday. The woman was the owner of a nursing home for women who need care and supervision.
Homicide Lt. Bill Kato said four of the women's patients were in different parts of the sprawling, two-story house at 94-497 Kahualena Street in Waipahu when the owner and a fifth patient of the house argued at about 3 p.m.
The patient is thought to have picked up a kitchen knife and stabbed the owner, who was pronounced dead shortly after 4 p.m. at St. Francis Medical Center West.
Kato said the patient who wielded the knife was taken to the Pearl City police station last night.
Half an hour before that stabbing, a 28-year-old man was stabbed in Ala Moana Beach Park during a gathering in honor of Chuuk's constitution day.
Jayrine Dobich said she and hundreds of other people of Chuuk ancestry were celebrating by competing in track-and-field events in the park when two men approached the participants and started making trouble.
She and other witnesses said one of the men had a foot-long knife, which he waved toward a man in the crowd. While waving the knife, the 22-year-old Kalihi man accidentally stabbed his 28-year-old companion.
Dozens of the track-and-field participants chased the man with the knife from the Ala Moana Boulevard side of the park and caught him just as he got to the beach.
Wyatt Sua and Tui Pan, who were at a birthday party near the beach for Pan's 1-year-old niece, Jhoenay Pan, said they saw the man with the knife being chased past them by about 20 people, who tackled him.
Sua said off-duty police officers — who had been hired as security for the track and field event — drew their guns and ordered the crowd away from the man.
The man was then arrested. The stabbing victim was taken to Queen's Medical Center in critical condition. He was later upgraded to guarded condition, police said.
