Posted at 10:51 a.m., Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Police beat: Pedestrian killed by car identified
Advertiser Staff
The city Department of the Medical Examiner has identified Melvin Ulep of Pearl City as the pedestrian who was fatally injured yesterday when he was hit by a car while trying to cross Kamehameha Highway near Neal Blaisdell Park.Ulep, 31, was in a marked crosswalk and was walking makai near Kaluamoi Place, police said.
A Honolulu-bound 1995 black Buick Riviera driven by a 23-year-old man hit Ulep shortly before 3:30 p.m. Police said he was taken in critical condition to The Queen's Medical Center, where he later died. Neither the driver of the car nor his adult passenger was injured, police said.
Speed and alcohol were not factors, police said. It was the 60th traffic death on O'ahu this year, compared with 48 at this point last year.
Last year, two pedestrians were killed in separate incidents within a 24-hour period along the same mile-long stretch of Kamehameha Highway.
Argument leads to threat with gun
Police yesterday arrested a 33-year-old Makaha man as a suspect in a terroristic threatening case.
A 24-year-old man told police he got into an argument with the suspect in downtown Honolulu yesterday morning before he and the suspect went their own separate ways.
The younger man told police the suspect approached him some time prior to 3:45 p.m., took out a handgun and threatened to shoot him.
Police were called and arrested the older man for suspicion of first-degree terroristic threatening.
