A Makiki woman told police she came home Tuesday to find a man with a knife in her Thurston Avenue home. She then locked herself and her two children in a bedroom.

The woman said she used a cell phone to call her sister, who then alerted police. While she waited for officers to arrive, she said, she heard the suspect pounding the walls. Later, police said, knife markings were found on the walls.

The suspect was arrested on first-degree terroristic threatening charges.

Beating victim dies; charges sought

The victim in a Jan. 28 beating at Ke'ehi Boat Harbor has died, and prosecutors are expected to seek indictment of the suspect on murder charges.

John Frisch, 41, was arraigned Jan. 31 on attempted murder charges in connection with the beating of 49-year-old Richard Carl Lamb. Lamb was taken to The Queen's Medical Center, where he died at 3:25 a.m. Tuesday. Lamb had no local address, said chief medical examiner Susan Siu.

Bail on the original charges was set at $100,000. Because Frisch remains in custody and is not expected to make bail, police favor conferring with prosecutors for a grand jury indictment instead of immediately having him rearraigned for murder, said police homicide Lt. Bill Kato.

The night of the murder, Frisch and Lamb began arguing at about 5:30 p.m. in the harbor parking lot. The fight escalated until Frisch allegedly held the victim down, punched him and struck his head against the pavement.

He fled and was arrested at about 7 p.m. aboard a boat in the harbor, police said.

Driver arrested on theft charges

A 22-year-old woman learning to drive a manual-transmission car in 'Aiea early this morning was driving erratically enough to catch the eye of police, who arrested her on auto theft charges.

The woman was driving near the intersection of Kamehameha Highway and Pali Momi Street at 2:30 a.m. when she was stopped for erratic driving.

She explained that she was still learning manual-transmission driving, but then the officer noticed an expired registration sticker on the car. A further check found the car to be a stolen vehicle, and the woman was arrested.