Punahou grad remembered as 'kindest guy'

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Friends and family of a slain University of Southern California student from Hawai'i gathered yesterday at a campus chapel to remember him and attempt to come to grips with his killing.

Max Hazlett, 21, a 2001 graduate of Punahou School, was remembered at the service by friends and relatives who traveled from as far away as New Zealand.

Hazlett's body was found at 5:30 a.m. April 3 on a street in downtown Los Angeles. He had been shot several times in the upper body, police said.

He lived less than a mile away from where his body was found. He was last seen when friends dropped him off near his home at 2 a.m. after a night on the town.

"Every situation was somehow funny to him," Trevor Ozawa, a friend, told KCBS-TV. "Everything was a good time. He was the kindest guy."

Christie Papilla, another friend, said Hazlett "really seemed full of life, and I think that partially had to do with his background, from being from Hawai'i, like he really seemed to spread the love."