Posted at 9:42 p.m., Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Kaneohe man arrested for '05 pedestrian death
Advertiser Staff
A Kane'ohe man was formally arrested today for misdemeanor third-degree negligent homicide in connection with the 2005 death of an 89-year-old pedestrian.Joseph M.K. Silva, 28, was booked at 1 p.m. today and released 30 minutes later. The case against Silva has been resolved in court but details were not immediately available.
Silva was driving a 1999 Ford pickup truck on Kamehameha Highway in Kane'ohe on Dec. 22, 2005, which struck and killed William Kobashigawa, a medic who served with the famed 100th Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team during World War II and received a Purple Heart and Bronze Star.
Kobashigawa was crossing Kamehameha Highway at 5:45 a.m. in a crosswalk, police said.
