Updated at 6:49 p.m., Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Puna boy, 14, and unborn child killed, father arrested
By Kevin Dayton
Advertiser Big Island Bureau
The woman's 14-year-old son was also slain Monday in what police described as a family disturbance in the Ainaloa subdivision in Puna.
Police arrested Ainaloa resident Tyrone Vesperas, 38, and opened a second-degree murder investigation in the case. Vesperas was treated for a stab wound to one leg, and was being held in the police cellblock in Hilo pending charges yesterday.
Vesperas was going through a divorce with the injured woman, who police identified as Cheryl-Lynn Saniatan, 34.
Tyran Vesperas-Saniatan, 14, the couple's son, was stabbed.
Saniatan would bring the boy to Vesperas' house each weekend for visitation, according to a neighbor.
