Suspects indicted in 'Aiea slaying
By David Waite
Advertiser Staff Writer
Three men ordered to stand trial in a fatal Nov.1 shooting in Pearl City have been indicted by an O'ahu grand jury in connection with another killing in 'Aiea six days earlier.
The indictment returned yesterday charges Micah Kanahele and Rosalino Ramos with second-degree murder in the death of Greg Morishima, 49, who was killed Oct. 26 in 'Aiea. The indictment also charges Kevin Harris with first-degree robbery in that case.
On Thursday District Judge Leslie Hayashi ordered Kanahele, 22; Harris, 26; and Ramos, 23, bound over to Circuit Court to stand trial on charges in the Nov. 1 Pearl City shooting that killed Guylan Nuuhiwa, 26, and wounded Winston Domingo, 24.
Police and prosecutors have called the Nov. 1 shooting a drug ripoff, saying Nuuhiwa and Domingo were lured to the parking lot fronting the Pearl City Longs Drug store on the pretense that the three other men wanted to buy a quarter-pound bag of marijuana.
According to testimony at the hearing in Hayashi's courtroom last week, Kanahele, Harris and Ramos did not have the money to buy the marijuana, and from the outset had intended to steal the marijuana from Domingo and Nuuhiwa.
Yesterday, when city Deputy Prosecutor Vickie Kapp presented the indictments in the Morishima killing to Circuit Judge Dan Kochi, she said Kanahele, Harris and Ramos along with two other men, who were also indicted, went to a drug house on Pamoho Place in 'Aiea to rob it.
Morishima, a parking supervisor at Aloha Stadium, was shot and killed by three masked men as he sat in the garage of the house.
In asking for high bail, Kapp said investigators believe Kanahele and Ramos and another man indicted in connection with Morishima's death, Jason Rumbawa, are members of a youth gang.
Kapp told Kochi that Kanahele was the first to shoot Morishima, followed by Ramos and Rumbawa. The three were indicted on a charge of second-degree murder and first-degree robbery. Harris and a fifth man, Anthony Brown, were also charged with first-degree robbery.
Kochi set bail at $500,000 for Kanahele and Ramos, $300,000 for Rumbawa, $200,000 for Harris and $100,000 for Brown.
