Updated at 4:19 p.m., Thursday, July 26, 2007
Honolulu man indicted in throat-slashing attack
Advertiser Staff
A 48-year-old Honolulu man was indicted by an O'ahu grand jury today on a charge of attempted assault in the razor-blade attack of a 60-year-old woman.Jay Shuji Kalahele is accused of slashing the woman's throat Saturday evening at Date and La'au streets. The woman was taken to a hospital for treatment.
About eight hours later, police went to a Date Street address in response to a male caller who wanted to surrender for slashing a woman's throat. There, Kalahele told police he cut the victim's throat with a razor blade, police said.
The charge of attempted assault in the first degree is a class B felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
Kalahele has five felony convictions — including burglary and second-degree assault — and five misdemeanor convictions from 1978 to 1989.
