POLICE BEAT
Pedestrian killed by car identified

Advertiser Staff

A pedestrian who was hit by a car and died Thursday while trying to cross North King Street near Kamehameha IV Road near the Kalihi Shopping Center has been identified by the city medical examiner's office as Marie K. Nakao, 70, of an Umi Street address in Kalihi.

Nakao was taken to The Queen's Medical Center, where she died on Friday.

Investigators had not determined the identity of a man who was killed Saturday morning in a collision on Farrington Highway at Mokuloa Street.

It was the 48th traffic death on O'ahu this year.

Missing teenager turns up unhurt

A 17-year-old girl who was reported missing Saturday after failing to show up for work at Kukui Plaza was found in Waikiki about 10 p.m. the same day.

Police said the girl, who was last seen at 7:45 a.m. on Nu'uanu Avenue, was unharmed when she was found 14 hours later.

Body found in parking lot

HILO, Hawai'i — The partially decomposed body of an unidentified woman was discovered yesterday in the corner of a parking lot of Waikoloa Villas.

South Kohala patrol officers were called to the Waikoloa residential complex at 2:46 p.m. and found the body. Police have ordered an autopsy to determine a cause of death and the identity of the woman.

Anyone with information about the woman's death or her identity is asked to call Detective Juergen Canda at 326-4646, Ext. 277, or the police non-emergency number at 935-3311.

8 families left homeless by fire

A fire at the Lailani Apartments in Kailua, Hawai'i, yesterday caused an estimated $500,000 damage and left eight families homeless, police said.

No one was injured in the 8:55 a.m. blaze that burned eight units at the complex on Manawalewa Street.

Police said a 16-year-old girl in Building 20 woke up in a bedroom after smelling smoke. The girl then woke up her 22-year-old brother in another bedroom, and together they found the fire in a third bedroom.

The two were unable to put out the fire, and evacuated the apartment with three other children. Residents of adjoining units were also evacuated, police said.

The Red Cross was helping the families find shelter.

Man killed in crash identified

Big Island police have identified the victim of a one-car crash in North Kohala on Saturday as Robert T. Suenaga, 41, of Kapa'au.

Police said Suenaga was driving a 1989 GMC pickup truck north on Akoni Pule Highway when the truck ran off the west side of the road and overturned one-tenth of a mile north of the 16-mile marker in Kapa'a. Suenaga was thrown from the truck.

Anyone with information about the accident is asked to call police officer Eric Cerezo at 961-2332.

Waikiki incident results in arrest

Police arrested a 37-year-old man at Kuhio and Kaiulani avenues in Waikiki at 3:30 Sunday morning on suspicion of two weapons violations.

Acting on a complaint, police found a man with a gun standing in the middle of the street challenging cars.

Police arrested the man on suspicion of failure to properly store a firearm and possession of an unregistered firearm.