A 26-year-old man was charged yesterday with one count of first-degree attempted murder and two counts of attempted second-degree murder in connection with an attack on two men Saturday in Kalihi. John Madrid is being held in lieu of $200,000 bail.

Police said Madrid and another man, who is still at-large, confronted two men, both 19, on Kaiwi'ula Street at 2:30 a.m. Madrid allegedly tried to stab one of the

victims with a knife. The second attacker allegedly shot at both victims, critically wounding one of them in the abdomen, before fleeing.

Madrid was arrested Sunday night at a Winant Street address.

Man booked for two robberies

An 18-year-old man was arrested yesterday on suspicion of stabbing and robbing a homeless man of a moped in Kaka'ako on Sept. 12 and robbing another man, 18, at a Kailua bus stop on April 22.

He was booked on first- and second-degree robbery.

Stranded Palolo hikers rescued

Firefighters yesterday rescued a 41-year-old woman and her daughter, 22, from a steep ridge above Ka'au Crater in Palolo Valley.

The hikers, who were not injured, were brought out by helicopter at about 1 p.m., said Honolulu Fire Department spokesman Capt. Kenison Tejada.

The hikers, who were stranded on the ridge overnight, had called friends on their cellular phones. Members of the Hawaiian Trail & Mountain Climbing Club pinpointed their position yesterday at 10:30 a.m. and called Fire Rescue for assistance, said Tejada.

The ridge they were on was so steep that the younger woman had to hang on to a tree overnight to keep from falling, said Tejada.