Wai'anae hit-run suspect surrenders to police

Advertiser Staff

Police have arrested a 32-year-old Wai'anae man in the hit-and-run death Monday night of a teenager who was killed while riding his bicycle on a sidewalk along Farrington Highway.

The bicyclist has been identified by the Honolulu medical examiner as Robert K. Davis, 17, of Wai'anae.

Davis was struck by a stolen sport utility vehicle at Farrington Highway and Poka'i Bay Street. The driver of the SUV left the vehicle and fled.

Police vehicular homicide investigators said Davis was riding his bicycle toward Nanakuli on the mauka side of the highway about 5 p.m. when the SUV, headed toward Wai'anae, swerved to the right, jumped the curb and hit him.

Investigators said the driver got out, looked at the injured boy momentarily and ran across the highway, where he took a bicycle from an onlooker and pedaled away from the scene. The suspect later abandoned the bike and was seen running from the area.

Davis was declared dead at the scene with head and chest injuries.

The driver turned himself in last night at the Kapolei police station, where he was arrested about 9:20 p.m. on suspicion of first-degree negligent homicide and leaving the scene of an accident resulting in serious injury or death.

The negligent-homicide charge is brought in cases in which the offending driver is believed to be under the influence of alcohol or drugs when a fatal accident occurs.