Police said Daniel C. Lista of a Hianakiu Street address mishandled a handgun, causing it to go off and shoot the victim in the chest. The incident occurred at a third person's residence, police said.

Lista was arrested initially on suspicion of attempted second-degree murder but the charges were later reduced to second-degree assault. Lista also was charged with failure to properly store a firearm and use of a firearm in commission of a felony.

Bail for Lista was set at $75,000.

He made news in 2001 when a homemade explosive device he was fashioning out of sparklers prematurely detonated.

Lista was the featured speaker at a December 2003 news conference at U.S. Attorney Ed Kubo's office during which law enforcement officials cautioned the public about the hazards of fireworks, both legal and illegal.

Lista urged children and their parents not to tamper with fireworks.

"This is the result I have to live with for the rest of my life," Lista said at the time.

Pedestrian killed Friday identified

The city Department of the Medical Examiner has identified Larry L. Walter, 28, of a Lunalilo Street address as the pedestrian who was fatally injured while trying to cross the H-1 Freeway about 9:15 p.m. Friday.

Police said Walter and another man had crossed the east-bound lanes of the freeway near the Houghtailing exit, climbed over the metal barrier and were attempting to cross the west-bound lanes when Walter was struck by a 2005 Lexus sedan.

Walter was taken to The Queen's Medical Center where he was pronounced dead at 10:40 p.m.

Police said the 32-year-old man who was driving the car that struck Walter was not speeding and had not been drinking prior to the incident, but that it appears Walter had been drinking.

Walter was the 11th traffic fatality on O'ahu this year compared to 16 last year.

Moped theft leads to charges

A 43-year-old man who allegedly used physical force to take a moped away from a 27-year-old woman was arrested yesterday afternoon at the Ala Wai Boat Harbor on a variety of charges.

Police found the man at the harbor shortly after the woman reported the moped being taken.