SOUTH KONA, Hawai'i — A 48-year-old man was killed today when his motorcycle struck a horse on the roadway about the 85-mile marker in Honomalino.

Big Island police identified the man as William K. Kaniho, of the Hawaiian Ocean View Estates subdivision in Ka'u.

Kaniho was riding a 1989 Suzuki motorcycle south on Hawaii Belt Road (Route 11) when he struck a large white horse at 3:40 a.m., police said. He died at Kona Community Hospital at 7:30 a.m.

The horse was put down by a veterinarian.

Man arrested in bar shooting

A 21-year-old man arrested Friday night on suspicion of firing three shots from a sawed-off shotgun at another man at a Kapolei bar is facing federal charges.

The 48-year-old off-duty police officer who was shot at was not injured. The shooting occurred at T Spot Hideaway Cigar & Lounge at the Kapolei Shopping Center.

The pending federal action stems from the Project Safe Neighborhood Act, aimed at gun violence in neighborhoods, and the use of the sawed-off shotgun, a prohibited weapon.

Three arrested after brawl near bar

Police arrested two boys and a man, ages 16, 17 and 19, after a brawl early yesterday in the parking lot of a Kalihi bar in which one man was hit in the head with a beer bottle and another threatened with a gun.

The three were booked on suspicion of first-degree terroristic threatening, and second- and third-degree assault and released pending further investigation.

The confrontation outside of a bar known as Club Lao Star or Lao Star & Thai Garden Lounge, was reported to police at 1 a.m. and involved a group of 15 people fighting against three others. Members of the larger group had knives and one of them, the 16-year-old, allegedly hit a man, 24, on the head with a beer bottle and threatened one of the club’s bouncers, 30, with a gun.

Man charged in threat with car

A 29-year-old Makakilo man was charged yesterday with first-degree terroristic threatening for allegedly driving his vehicle at a police officer Saturday morning after entering an undisclosed work area on the Leeward Coast that was closed to traffic. Hoona Uta is being held in lieu of $25,000 bail.

Sailors arrested in traffic injuries

Two 21-year-old Pearl Harbor sailors were arrested Saturday on suspicion of drunken driving and leaving the scene of an accident in which a couple from North Dakota, ages 73 and 65, were struck by a sports utility vehicle at 8:50 a.m. while crossing Ala Moana near Hobron Lane.

The couple suffered serious injuries and are hospitalized at The Queen’s Medical Center, police said.