Updated at 5:08 p.m., Monday, June 4, 2007
Wahiawa man pleads not guilty in N. Shore shooting case
Advertiser Staff
A 21-year-old man who was indicted by an O'ahu grand jury last week on a murder charge in the shooting death of a North Shore man pleaded not guilty this morning in Circuit Court.Dustin Jimenez, accused of killing Dillon Ching, 30, is set to stand trial Aug. 6, and is being held in lieu of $1 million bail.
Ching, 30, was shot twice in the back late May 19 outside his family's Sunset Beach area home as he was trying to break up a fight between two groups of people.
He was pronounced dead early the next morning at the Wahiawa General Hospital emergency room.
The murder charge carries a mandatory life term with possibility of parole.
Jimenez, of 'Ohai Place in Wahiawa, also was charged with three firearm counts, first-degree terroristic threatening and first-degree reckless endangering.
